Author: Philip Babcock Gove
Publisher: Merriam-Webster
ISBN: 0877792011
Category : Dictionaries, Polyglot
Languages : en
Pages : 42

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An English language dictionary containing over 470,000 entries.

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Languages : en
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Author: Noah Webster
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1122

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Author: Rh Value Publishing
Publisher: Random House Value Pub
ISBN: 9780517118887
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1854

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ISBN: 9780760702888
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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The dictionary entries are based on the second edition of the Random House dictionary of the English language.

Author: Merriam-Webster, Inc
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Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 820

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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.

Author: Bonnie Gordon
Publisher: Visual Studies Workshop
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 54

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"The image-maps in this book record the progress of a decade long exploration of the content of a dictionary and a stretchable halftone photograph. The book and the picture served one another as tools for discovering their mutual underlying subject matter",

Author: Eds. Merriam-Webster
Publisher: Turtleback Books
ISBN: 9780606366977
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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This book gives students two essential language references in one handy volume featuring nearly 60,000 alphabetical dictionary entries integrated with 13,500 thesaurus entries with an extensive synonym lists. Nearly 500 new thesaurus entries have bee

Author: David Skinner
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0062345753
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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“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.

Author: Merriam-Webster, Inc
Publisher: Merriam-Webster
ISBN: 9780877793700
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1184

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Find the right word every time with this indispensable guide! Concise definitions pinpoint meanings shared by synonyms. More than 275,000 word choices, examples, and explanations. Sample sentences and phrases for each synonym at its own entry clarify how words are used in context. Alphabetical lists may also include related words, idiomatic phrases, near antonyms, and antonyms. A perfect companion to the best-selling Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Ed.