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Anne H. Soukhanov is the "Word Watch" columnist for the Atlantic Monthly and executive editor of The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition. Stuart Berg Flexner was one of America's most distinguished lexicographers, a major editor of The Random House Dictionary--The Unabridged Edition and author of The Dictionary of American Slang, among many other books.
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