Kory Stamper: Difference between revisions

Stamper worked in a college development office before applying for an editorial assistant position with [[Merriam-Webster]] in 1998.<ref name=":0" /> She left Merriam-Webster after working there for nearly 20 years.<ref>{{cite web|last=Stamper|first=Kory|url=https://korystamper.wordpress.com/about/|title=Who?|work=harm·less drudg·ery|date=19 September 2011 |access-date=March 1, 2021}}</ref> She was associate editor at Merriam-Webster for more than ten years.<ref>{{cite news|last=Pfarrer|first=Steve|date=July 20, 2017|url=https://www.gazettenet.com/The-Secret-Life-if-Dictionaries-Lexicographer-Kory-Stamper-talks-about-her-work-with-Merriam-Webster-and-the-quirks-of-the-English-language-11268612|title=The secret life of dictionaries: Kory Stamper on her new book 'Word by Word'|work=Daily Hampshire Gazette|access-date=March 1, 2021}}</ref> As of 2019, Stamper worked freelance with [[Cambridge University Press]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Stamper|first=Kory|date=December 4, 2019|url=https://aceseditors.org/news/2019/interview-with-an-editor-kory-stamper|title=Interview with an Editor: Kory Stamper|publisher=ACES: The Society for Editing|access-date=March 1, 2021}}</ref> As of December 2023, she was senior editor of lexicography at [[Dictionary.com]],<ref>{{cite web|url=https://wwwcontent.dictionary.com/e/word-of-the-day/mountweazelyear-2023-12-23/|title=The Dictionary.com Word of the DayYear -is mountweazel''hallucinate''.|work=Dictionary.com|date=December 2312, 2023|access-date=May 1, 2024}}</ref> where she worked until April 2024.<ref>{{cite web|last=Kory|first=Stamper|date=April 13, 2024|url=https://bsky.app/profile/korystamper.bsky.social/post/3kpxgzhx7eo2l|title=I always said I'd ride the dictionary train until the terminus; the train will pull into the station April 30, which is my last day at dictionary.com. What a magical and unlikely career this has been. I'll miss it! HMU if you ever need an editor who knows more about grammar than is safe! 💜|work=Bluesky|access-date=May 1, 2024}}</ref>