The Story of Webster's Third - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Story of Webster's Third write by Herbert C. Morton. This book was released on 1994. The Story of Webster's Third available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The publication of Webster's Third New International Dictionary in 1961 set off a storm of controversy in both the popular press and in scholarly journals that was virtually unprecedented in its scope and intensity. This is the first full account of the controversy, set within the larger background of how the dictionary was planned and put together by its editor-in-chief, Philip Babcock Gove. Based on original research and interviews with the people who knew and worked with Gove, this is a human story as well as the story of the making of a dictionary. The author skilfully interweaves an account of Gove's character and working habits with the evolution of the dictionary. The reception given Webster's Third - now widely regarded as one of the greatest dictionaries of our time - illuminates public misconceptions about language and the role of dictionaries.
The Story of Ain't
The Story of Ain't - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Story of Ain't write by David Skinner. This book was released on 2014-01-28. The Story of Ain't available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “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.
Noah Webster and His Words
Noah Webster and His Words - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Noah Webster and His Words write by Jeri Chase Ferris. This book was released on 2012-10-23. Noah Webster and His Words available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Golden Kite Award for Nonfiction Webster’s American Dictionary is the second most popular book ever printed in English. But who was that Webster? Noah Webster (1758–1843) was a bookish Connecticut farm boy who became obsessed with uniting America through language. He spent twenty years writing two thousand pages to accomplish that, and the first 100 percent American dictionary was published in 1828 when he was seventy years old. This clever, hilariously illustrated account shines a light on early American history and the life of a man who could not rest until he’d achieved his dream. An illustrated chronology of Webster’s life makes this a picture perfect bi-og-ra-phy [noun: a written history of a person's life].
Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged
Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged write by Philip Babcock Gove. This book was released on 1971. Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language, Unabridged available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
An American Dictionary of the English Language
An American Dictionary of the English Language - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An American Dictionary of the English Language write by Noah Webster. This book was released on 1841. An American Dictionary of the English Language available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
