Lilly Library Sunday School Slang Roy L. Smith (1887–1963) served as a Methodist minister for 32 years, toiled for eight years as editor of The ... March 8, 2023
Lilly Library Looking at Slang through Steve Allen’s Glasses Madeline Kripke’s phenomenal collection abounds with big dictionaries, old dictionaries, and big old dictionaries, but it also includes some very ... March 1, 2023
Lilly Library A Dictionary for Blind Musicians After opening its tattered brown cover, all I could see, at first, was an apparently blank white book, but then ... February 22, 2023
Lilly Library Judging a Book by Its Endpapers Given Madeline Kripke’s love of English slang and English dictionaries, we reasonably expect to find copies of all the major ... February 15, 2023
Lilly Library Unpacking the Kripke Collection I first met Madeline Kripke at the biennial meeting of the Dictionary Society of North America (DSNA) held at the ... February 8, 2023