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Jane Solomon is a lexicographer and emoji expert based in Oakland, California. She spends her days working on various projects related to dictionaries and emoji. She's currently a senior emoji lexicographer at Emojipedia.

Jane was at Dictionary.com from 2013–2019, and she's also worked for Macmillan, Oxford, Cambridge, HarperCollins, Scholastic, Thinkmap, and K Dictionaries. She's on the Unicode Emoji Subcommittee, the group that decides what new emoji will pop up on our devices. ...more

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The Dictionary of Difficult Words: With more than 400 perplexing words to test your wits!
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