we never knowingly employed anyone named sugarbush. so it's sort of a stereotype but it does indicate what i felt in the work when i was working there and so in the book there are sort of four main aspects that i wanted to draw into. the reason i wanted to write the book was a book of the questions about words. the interesting things i found out about words and how i approach them and dictionary writers always have to come up with words on the side. never confront them head on because you don't find anything if you confront them head on. you look at the strange aspects, you're looking at how people use words in the park. you're trying to push you read a sentence from the 17th century text, you are trying to push it out of shape so that it helps you to understand the definition of the actual word you are working on and it's a strange way of looking at things but i always like to look at things sideways rather than front on. i wanted to talk about the language, how exchanged over the time i was at the dictionary. the book more or less st