Tracing the 500-Year History of the English Dictionary - An exhibition at the Grolier Club in New York shows that lexicographers are just like us: petty, creative, and political.
"As Jack Lynch, professor of English at Rutgers University and co-curator of the exhibition, explained to Hyperallergic, 'Noah Webster is a fascinating figure: an American patriot who just missed fighting in the Revolution and a brilliant definer — but also a bad-tempered grouch with the worst business instincts in America. Still, he and the Merriams established the most enduring dictionary franchise in history.'”
