Dictionary Wars
Dictionary Wars A compelling history of the national conflicts that resulted from efforts to produce the first definitive American dictionary of EnglishThe Dictionary Wars recounts the patriotic…
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Dictionary Wars
A compelling history of the national conflicts that resulted from efforts to produce the first definitive American dictionary of EnglishThe 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. Peter Martin tells of the intense rivalry between America's first lexicographers, Noah Webster and Joseph Emerson Worcester, and how their conflict continued beyond Webster's death, when the ambitious Merriam brothers acquired publishing rights to Webster's American Dictionary. The 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.
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