If someone, on a walk in the countryside, finds a plant that does not appear in the botanical books, it does not occur to them to say that this plant does not exist, but rather that it is not registered in the normal flora. On the contrary, many people categorically affirm that this or that word does not exist simply because it does not appear in dictionaries in general or, more specifically, it does not appear in the Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy, which is granted the authority to grant the birth certificates, or good conduct certificates, of the words. This book deals with this presumed authority of dictionaries, which also covers their history and geography throughout the world's main languages, from their origins in Assyro-Egyptian and Greek Antiquity to the electronic versions of dictionaries accessible by internet, and from European languages to the most widely spoken ...read more
