lara heimert, was coming out this fall? >> i am excited about the word detective by john simpson who is the formal editor and chief of the oxford dictionary who has been there for 40 years until retiring in 2013 and oversaw the complete transformation of dicti dictionaries. i think for anyone who read the professor and mad man you can remember the description of what it was like to assemble a dictionary in the 19th century. readers from all over the world submitted cards and send them to the oxford and they were put in card files. and whenever the dictionary was revised they would make it into the next round. it took an incredibly long time to update new meanings of words or etmall they discovered. now you have crowd sourcing and people reporting tweets and website. it has always led them to have to go back and relearn whole words that, you know, with all of the newspapers online you can discover usage no one ever heard of the last time the dictionary was revived. it is extraordinary revolution in language. along the way, h

lara heimert, was coming out this fall? >> i am excited about the word detective by john simpson who is the formal editor and chief of the oxford dictionary who has been there for 40 years until retiring in 2013 and oversaw the complete transformation of dicti dictionaries. i think for anyone who read the professor and mad man you can remember the description of what it was like to assemble a dictionary in the 19th century. readers from all over the world submitted cards and send them to the oxford and they were put in card files. and whenever the dictionary was revised they would make it into the next round. it took an incredibly long time to update new meanings of words or etmall they discovered. now you have crowd sourcing and people reporting tweets and website. it has always led them to have to go back and relearn whole words that, you know, with all of the newspapers online you can discover usage no one ever heard of the last time the dictionary was revived. it is extraordinary revolution in language. along the way, h