Basic Quote by James Gleick

Dictionaries are like watches; the worst is better than none, and the best cannot be expected to be quite true.

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Anonymous

I work with the Oxford Dictionary databases, which sounds really boring, but they're actually fascinating as they show you how current words are being…

— Susie Dent

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

Most consumers don't have a good metric for deciding on whether the dictionary they want to use is a good one... so they flip…

— Erin McKean

To make dictionaries is dull work.

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Steven Pinker

“Dictionaries are like vitamins and floss; we buy them and then never use them. Even I, an English teacher, a lover of words, have…

— Jenny Baranick

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

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

I have more deffinition then a dictionary

— Ashley James Copping