Kory Stamper is a lexicographer who has spent more than 30 years now slowly going blind while defining words like “take” and “blue plate special.” She travels around the country giving talks and presentations on things that only other word nerds would be interested in, and she sometimes goes on the tee-vee to swear in a professional capacity. Though she no longer has a day job in dictionaries, she still does volunteer lexicography and language revitalization as a member of the Miami Nation of Indiana’s Language Council.
If you enjoy the sort of pabulum (sense 3) that appears here, you can read more of Kory’s blah-bitty-blah all over the place.
Her debut nonfiction book, Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, and her second book, True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color–from Azure to Zinc Pink, are available at fine purveyors of books everywhere. Publishers Weekly called Word by Word “occasionally profane,” and Kirkus Reviews called True Color “irreverent,” which is both delightful and cautionary for some of y’all. She’s working on more nonfiction books that are about words and secret histories, and which will, no doubt, also be occasionally profane and irreverent.
Her opinions, typos, and blog are her own, so no sense complaining to anyone else about them.
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