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Languages : en
Pages : 1290
Book Description
Webster and Worcester Dictionary Controversy
A Gross Literary Fraud Exposed
Author: Joseph Emerson WorcesterPublisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Webster and Worcester Dictionary Controversy
Author: The Story of Webster's Third
Author: Herbert C. MortonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521558693
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
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.
American Dictionaries
Author: Stewart Archer StegerPublisher:
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
A Review of Webster's System of Orthography
Author: Edward Sherman GouldPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Worcester's Dictionary Published in England Under the Guise of Webster's Dictionary, &c. &c
Author: G. & C. Merriam (Firm)Publisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Walker's Pronouncing dictionary of the English language, with Webster's definitions and Worcester's improvements, remodelled. Pearl ed. Pearl ed
Author: John WalkerPublisher:
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Noah Webster and the American Dictionary
Author: David MicklethwaitPublisher: McFarland
ISBN: 9780786421572
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
Noah Webster was described by the publisher of a competing dictionary as "a vain ... plodding Yankee, who aspired to be a second Johnson"--a criticism that rings mostly true. He was certainly vain and, born in Connecticut, undeniably a Yankee. Moreover, though he referred to Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language as a "barren desart of philology," the American lexicographer relied heavily on the book during the creation of his own American Dictionary, going so far as to filch whole sections. And few would seem more "plodding" than Webster, who was positively obsessed with collecting and preserving bits of information. He kept records of the weather, carefully logged the number of houses in every new town he passed through, filed away every scrap of his writing and everything written about him, and filled the margins of his books with references, dates and corrections. The proud Yankee's sensibilities, however, also made him a fine lexicographer. Generally credited with distinguishing American spelling and usage from British, Webster shunned prescriptive mores and was doggedly loyal to his own language habits, as well as to those of the average American speaker. The book covers Webster's major publications and the influences and methods that shaped them; recounts his life as schoolteacher, copyright law champion, and itinerant lecturer; and examines the Webster legacy. An appendix containing title page reproductions from Webster's books, as well as some from his predecessors and competitors, is also included.
The Dictionary Wars
Author: Peter MartinPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691210179
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
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.
