Noah's Mark - By Jill Lepore - Professor of History, Harvard - Published in The New Yorker, Nov. 6, 2006
"The lexicographer's business is solely to collect, arrange and define the words that usage presents to his hands. He has no right to proscribe words; he is to present them as they are."

Noah's Mark - By Jill Lepore - Professor of History, Harvard - Published in The New Yorker, Nov. 6, 2006