[JackFr]

A dictionary is a creative, curated and editorial work. While I could see, in the US for example, the National Endowment for the Humanities supporting the work, it is very far removed from something like the National Institute if Standards and Technology.

It is not a given that such work is best handled through the public purse.

[2muchcoffeeman]

It’s also not clear it won’t work.

Governments fund the arts all the time. Why is there automatically an assumption that this will end with the government editing the dictionary to control speech?