Ammon Shea is an American writer, known for his nonfiction books about the English language.
[1][2] He was subsequently hired to work at Oxford University Press as a consulting editor of American dictionaries.
Shea has also contributed to the "On Language" column in Sunday's New York Times.
[3] Shea is also the author of The Phone Book: The Curious History of the Book That Everyone Uses But No One Reads (2010) [4] and Bad English: A History of Linguistic Aggravation (2014) [5] A dictionary collector, Shea had already read Webster's Second International Dictionary in the 1990s.
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