"Color is as much a part of our lives as air, water, and taxes. And it is maddeningly, beguilingly slippery." In a new excerpt from her forthcoming book, Kory Stamper details how her work at Merriam-Webster launched her fascination with colors and the "dozens of overlapping concerns" that define them.

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