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Book Webster s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language  Unabridged

Download or read book Webster s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged written by Philip Babcock Gove and published by Merriam-Webster. This book was released on 2002 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An English language dictionary containing over 470,000 entries.

Book A Dictionary of the English Language

Download or read book A Dictionary of the English Language written by Noah Webster and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Merriam Webster s Concise Dictionary of English Usage

Download or read book Merriam Webster s Concise Dictionary of English Usage written by Merriam-Webster, Inc and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handy guide to problems of confused or disputed usage based on the critically acclaimed Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage. Over 2,000 entries explain the background and basis of usage controversies and offer expert advice and recommendations.

Book An American Dictionary of the English Language

Download or read book An American Dictionary of the English Language written by Noah Webster and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 1122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Webster s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged

Download or read book Webster s Third New International Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged written by Noah Webster and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 2748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Webster s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language

Download or read book Webster s Encyclopedic Unabridged Dictionary of the English Language written by Rh Value Publishing and published by Random House Value Pub. This book was released on 1994 with total page 1854 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Webster s Third New International Dictionary

Download or read book Webster s Third New International Dictionary written by Noah Webster and published by Merriam Webster. This book was released on 2000 with total page 2783 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly half a million entries provide standard and variant pronunciations, etymologies, comprehensive definitions, updated usage illustrations, and synonym articles.

Book Webster s New Encyclopedic Dictionary

Download or read book Webster s New Encyclopedic Dictionary written by Merriam-Webster Inc and published by Black Dog & Leventhal. This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most accurate and authoritative dictionary with 30 subject-specific reference guides, more than 200,000 entries, definitions, facts, and figures, and 32 up-to-date full-color maps of the world. Available in hardcover and paperback! Over 400,000 sold!

Book Webster s New Universal Unabridged Dictionary

Download or read book Webster s New Universal Unabridged Dictionary written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dictionary entries are based on the second edition of the Random House dictionary of the English language.

Book Merriam Webster s Dictionary and Thesaurus

Download or read book Merriam Webster s Dictionary and Thesaurus written by Merriam-Webster and published by Perfection Learning. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 1259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Integrated language tools: Synonym lists and dictionary entries combined alphabetically; Clear and concise word guidance; Abundant usage examples; Supports Common Core State Standards"--Cover.

Book The Story of Ain t

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  • Author : David Skinner
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2014-01-28
  • ISBN : 0062345753
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book The Story of Ain t written by David Skinner and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-01-28 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It takes true brilliance to lift the arid tellings of lexicographic fussing into the readable realm of the thriller and the bodice-ripper….David Skinner has done precisely this, taking a fine story and honing it to popular perfection.” —Simon Winchester, New York Times bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman The captivating, delightful, and surprising story of Merriam Webster’s Third Edition, the dictionary that provoked America’s greatest language controversy. In those days, Webster’s Second was the great gray eminence of American dictionaries, with 600,000 entries and numerous competitors but no rivals. It served as the all-knowing guide to the world of grammar and information, a kind of one-stop reference work. In 1961, Webster’s Third came along and ignited an unprecedented controversy in America’s newspapers, universities, and living rooms. The new dictionary’s editor, Philip Gove, had overhauled Merriam’s long held authoritarian principles to create a reference work that had “no traffic with…artificial notions of correctness or authority. It must be descriptive not prescriptive.” Correct use was determined by how the language was actually spoken, and not by “notions of correctness” set by the learned few. Dwight MacDonald, a formidable American critic and writer, emerged as Webster’s Third’s chief nemesis when in the pages of the New Yorker he likened the new dictionary to the end of civilization.. The Story of Ain’t describes a great cultural shift in America, when the voice of the masses resounded in the highest halls of culture, when the division between highbrow and lowbrow was inalterably blurred, when the humanities and its figureheads were shunted aside by advances in scientific thinking. All the while, Skinner treats the reader to the chippy banter of the controversy’s key players. A dictionary will never again seem as important as it did in 1961.