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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 1831 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Century Dictionary

Download or read book The Century Dictionary written by William Dwight Whitney and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 The Elementary Spelling Book

Download or read book The Elementary Spelling Book written by Noah Webster and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Dictionary Wars

    The Dictionary Wars

    Book Details:
  • Author : Peter Martin
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • Release : 2020-09-08
  • ISBN : 0691210179
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book The Dictionary Wars written by Peter Martin and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a definitive national dictionary that would rival Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary of the English Language. But what began as a cultural war of independence from Britain devolved into a battle among lexicographers, authors, scholars, and publishers, all vying for dictionary supremacy and shattering forever the dream of a unified American language.

Book Webster s New Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language

Download or read book Webster s New Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language written by Harold Whitehall and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 2382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Story of Ain t

    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.

Book Word by Word

Download or read book Word by Word written by Kory Stamper and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-03-06 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child. We love and nurture it into being, and once it gains gross motor skills, it starts going exactly where we don’t want it to go: it heads right for the goddamned electrical sockets.” With wit and irreverence, lexicographer Kory Stamper cracks open the obsessive world of dictionary writing, from the agonizing decisions about what to define and how to do it to the knotty questions of ever-changing word usage. Filled with fun facts—for example, the first documented usage of “OMG” was in a letter to Winston Churchill—and Stamper’s own stories from the linguistic front lines (including how she became America’s foremost “irregardless” apologist, despite loathing the word), Word by Word is an endlessly entertaining look at the wonderful complexities and eccentricities of the English language.

Book Webster s New World Dictionary of the American Language

Download or read book Webster s New World Dictionary of the American Language written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Webster s New Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged

Download or read book Webster s New Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language Unabridged written by Noah Webster and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Webster s New Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language

Download or read book Webster s New Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language written by Noah Webster and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 2474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Webster s New World College Dictionary Fifth Edition

Download or read book Webster s New World College Dictionary Fifth Edition written by Editors of Editors of Webster's New World College Dictionaries and published by Webster's New World. This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 1728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Webster's New World College Dictionary is a favorite of newsrooms and copyeditors nationwide, and it is the official dictionary of The Associated Press Stylebook.This dictionary features a clear and accessible defining style, abundant synonym notes, full-page tables and charts, hundreds of drawings that complement the definitions, and authoritative guidance on usage and style points. It also includes extensive coverage of Americanisms (words, phrases, and senses coined by an American or first used in the United States). It has added nearly 5,000 new entries, including terms from the areas of arts and sports, science and medicine, computers and the Internet, food, business, politics, and law. Tens of thousands of revisions have been made to existing senses, to bring them up-to-date and to reflect current usage. A reference supplement includes: Rules of punctuation, Roman numerals, Calendars, Monetary units, Currency symbols, Names for large number, Books of the Bible, Meteorological data, Commonly used weights and measures, Planets of the solar system, Geologic time scale, and Periodic table of the elements.