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Thank you for all the birthday wishes everyone. Spending the weekend with my wife and step-sons. She and I are heading out for a nice dinner in a bit.

Any other word nerds who can appreciate the gift she got me?

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jkbarnes wrote: Sat Sep 25, 2021 7:24 pm Any other word nerds who can appreciate the gift she got me?
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Happy Birthday!!
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jkbarnes wrote: Sat Sep 25, 2021 7:24 pm Thank you for all the birthday wishes everyone. Spending the weekend with my wife and step-sons. She and I are heading out for a nice dinner in a bit.

Any other word nerds who can appreciate the gift she got me?

Happy Birthday, Andrew! Fellow word nerd present and accounted for!

You are probably the only person I can recommend this to: read Kory Stamper's Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, published in 2017. She is a lexicographer at Merriam-Webster, and among other things, you will discover, much to my chagrin and disbelief (and the author's), that the "word" irregardless is in the dictionary.
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Happy Birthday, have a great time.

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Bident wrote: Sun Sep 26, 2021 4:16 am You are probably the only person I can recommend this to: read Kory Stamper's Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, published in 2017. She is a lexicographer at Merriam-Webster, and among other things, you will discover, much to my chagrin and disbelief (and the author's), that the "word" irregardless is in the dictionary.
It’s not going to be in my dictionary. I’m taking a sharpie to it if I see it in there!

I’ll definitely check the book out, thanks for the recommendation. Have you read The Professor and the Mad Man? It’s a must read if you’re into words and dictionaries. It’s the story of the writing of the OED and the prolific contributions made by a literal mad man. Check it out!

And thank you for the birthday wishes!
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jkbarnes wrote: Sun Sep 26, 2021 1:29 pm
Bident wrote: Sun Sep 26, 2021 4:16 am You are probably the only person I can recommend this to: read Kory Stamper's Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries, published in 2017. She is a lexicographer at Merriam-Webster, and among other things, you will discover, much to my chagrin and disbelief (and the author's), that the "word" irregardless is in the dictionary.
It’s not going to be in my dictionary. I’m taking a sharpie to it if I see it in there!

I’ll definitely check the book out, thanks for the recommendation. Have you read The Professor and the Mad Man? It’s a must read if you’re into words and dictionaries. It’s the story of the writing of the OED and the prolific contributions made by a literal mad man. Check it out!

And thank you for the birthday wishes!
That is a great book! I've yet to see the movie (Mel Gibson, Sean Penn), but I heard it wasn't that good so might skip it.

Hope you had a wonderful birthday!
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Bident wrote: Sun Sep 26, 2021 6:09 pm That is a great book! I've yet to see the movie (Mel Gibson, Sean Penn), but I heard it wasn't that good so might skip it.

Hope you had a wonderful birthday!
For what it’s worth, my parents very much recommended that movie. They mentioned it to me just last week, in fact.
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I’m a little late but, better late than never! Happy Birthday
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Never too late!

Again, thanks for the birthday wishes everyone!
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Belated Happy Birthday Andrew :)
I was on holidays so I wasn't on the forum as much.
I hope you had a great day.
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Happy belated Birthday! :cheers: :cheers:
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Belated happy birthday Andrew, I've been travelling so not around much and Sat 25th was my sons 9th birthday 😁
Hope you had a great weekend.
PS A nice meal and a couple of drinks would definitely be preferable to 10 kids at a trampoline park which is where my Sat was spent.
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rkovars wrote: Mon Sep 27, 2021 3:47 pm Happy belated Birthday! :cheers: :cheers:
Thank you, sir!

Soporsche wrote: Mon Sep 27, 2021 10:21 pm ...PS A nice meal and a couple of drinks would definitely be preferable to 10 kids at a trampoline park which is where my Sat was spent.
Haha! We've all been there! I've done my time with the "kids' parties as major events;" even had one at a trampoline park with an entire pre-school class invited! I hope/trust you survived?

Thanks for the birthday wishes.
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