In the Digital Era, Our Dictionaries Read Us

In the Digital Era, Our Dictionaries Read Us - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
http://chronicle.com/article/In-the-Digital-Era-Our/137719/

The days of displaying a thick Webster's in the parlor may be past, but dictionaries inhabit our daily lives more than we realize. "There are many more times during a day that you are interacting with a dictionary" now than ever before, says Katherine Connor Martin, head of U.S. dictionaries for Oxford University Press. Whenever you send a text or an e-mail, or read an e-book on your Nook, Kindle, or iPad, a dictionary is at your fingertips, whether or not you're aware of it.

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