Discussion Forum—A Way with Words, a fun radio show and podcast about language

Just the Right Word. (via Lanuagehat) “If I were asked to name a private collection assembled on a modest budget that has the potential to become an important resource at a major research institution, I would cite as my prime example Breon Mitchell's 2,000 dictionaries of exotic languages. The idea that Mitchell—an educator, translator, and since 2001, director of the Lilly Library at Indiana University—is a bibliophile of the first magnitude ought not to surprise anyone. He is custodian of one of the great rare books and manuscripts collections to be found in North America. But in the case of his dictionaries, gathered over the last decade, his passion transcends professional responsibility and is decidedly personal—a combining, as it were, of intellectual rigor with human nature.”