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A lot of people use the dictionary to find out how to spell words.

— Maxine Kumin

We think people go to a dictionary to find out what a word means. Most people go to the dictionary because they don't want…

— Erin McKean

Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries eventually reflect popular choices. And the Internet is allowing more people to influence spelling than ever before.

— David Crystal

The trouble with the dictionary is that you have to know how a word is spelled before you can look it up to see…

— Will Cuppy

People are under the impression that dictionaries legislate language. What a dictionary does is keep track of usages over time.

— Steven Pinker

Spellings are made by people. Dictionaries - eventually - reflect popular choices.

— David Crystal

Most people, if they think at all about the dictionary, think of it as this fixed object given to us from on high. It…

— Kory Stamper

I used to keep a dictionary and work with it and then I realized there are more words that exist in the English language…

— Nas

I use the dictionary all the time when I'm reading or working on scripts.

— Carrie Preston

I'm very sensitive to the English language. I studied the dictionary obsessively when I was a kid and collect old dictionaries. Words, I think,…

— Drew Barrymore

If a word is misspelled in the dictionary, how would we ever know? If Webster wrote the first dictionary, where did he find the…

— George Carlin

Basic dictionaries no longer belong on paper; the greatest, the 'Oxford English Dictionary,' has nimbly remade itself in cyberspace, where it has doubled in…

— James Gleick