Choices Quote by David Crystal

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

— David Crystal

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

— Maxine Kumin

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

Why are people still using a dictionary? I just type the words into Google and see if it corrects me.

— Anonymous

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

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

— Steven Pinker

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

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 think when dictionaries define words, there's a sort of hair-splitting that to most people doesn't make any sense, which is we're not describing…

— Kory Stamper

To make dictionaries is dull work.

— Samuel Johnson

Spelling is a way to make words safe, at least for now, until another technology appears to soften attacks launched from the mouth.

— Ben Marcus

If a word in the dictionary were misspelled, how would we know?

— Steven Wright