Geoffrey Nunberg, a linguist, teaches at the UC Berkeley School of Information. His most recent book is Ascent of the A-Word (2012).
Geoffrey Nunberg
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The Selfie-Taker and the Dictionary-Maker
Soon after John Simpson was hired as an editorial assistant at the Oxford English Dictionary in 1976, he took on the task of documenting new meanings of old …
The Selfie-Taker and the Dictionary-Maker
Soon after John Simpson was hired as an editorial assistant at the Oxford English Dictionary in 1976, he took on the task of documenting new meanings of old …
