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Apr 15, 2017·1 min read

Read Kory Stamper’s “Word by Word” and see if you still think dictionaries are immutable. Spoiler: they are far from it.

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Storyteller, seeker, always curious, work-in-progress

… paper yearbook is an immutable namespace because neither the names nor the photographs can change. Another example is a dictionary, which is an immutable namespace of the English language. Stable systems, including almost all that we deal with in the real world, are generally immutable …

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