The Dictionary Wars: The American Fight over the English Language

Peter Martin

The Dictionary Wars: The American Fight over the English Language
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Country
United States
Published
15 July 2021
Pages
376
ISBN
9780691210179

The Dictionary Wars: The American Fight over the English Language

Peter Martin

A compelling history of the national conflicts that resulted from efforts to produce the first definitive American dictionary of English

The Dictionary Wars 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

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