This is 99% invisible.

I'm Roman Mars.

This is part two of the 2017-2018 mini stories episodes

where I interview the staff and our collaborators about their favorite little design stories that don't quite fill out an entire episode for whatever reason, but they are cool 99 p.I. stories, nonetheless.

We have underground tunnels, alarms, mysterious filing cabinets, and gold.

Tiny, tiny amounts of gold.

Prepare to be very interesting at your next party.

Let's do this.

Why don't you start with who you are actually?

Okay, yeah, so I am Delaney Hall

and I am a producer and senior editor on staff.

All right, so what is your story today?

Well, first I'm going to introduce you to Peter Suckowalski.

And my levels are okay? Okay, so I'm not too loud or not pop. I try to not pop my peas, but I get excited.

I'll try not to talk too fast and the stuff that Peter gets really

excited about the stuff that makes him pop his peace and talk really fast is

language because he's the editor at large at

Miriam Webster and he's a lexicographer. Lexicographer is a person who

compiles and edits dictionaries. That's the old definition. The great Samuel

Johnson, the lexicographer in London in the mid-18th century, very famously defined a lexicographer

as a harmless drudge.

And Peter, he actually said that they use that term affectionately now as like a kind of

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