Kory Stamper
Lexicographer and author
Kory Stamper is a lexicographer who worked at Merriam-Webster and wrote Word by Word, a book about how dictionaries are made.
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About Kory Stamper
Kory Stamper is a lexicographer, which means she writes and edits dictionaries. She worked for nearly two decades at Merriam-Webster, where she was an associate editor. Her book Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries was published by Pantheon in 2017. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Guardian, The Boston Globe and The New York Times. She has given talks on language and lexicography in many countries, and she appeared in Netflix's The History of Swear Words. Stamper trained as a medievalist and knows several languages, most of them no longer spoken.