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Source: Chronicle of Higher Education

2/6/2023

Madeline Kripke Built an Immense—and Bawdy—Dictionary Collection

One woman's passion for collecting has been an invaluable resource for studies of the evolution of slang, profanity and vulgarisms; after her recent death, an epic quest to preserve the collection ensued.