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100	1		_aSkinner, David, _98957
245	1	4	_aThe story of ain't: America, its language, and the most controversial dictionary ever published / _cDavid Skinner.
250			_aFirst edition.
260			_aNew york _bHarper; Perennial _c2012
300			_axiv, 349 pages ; _c24 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 309-331) and index.
520			_a"In 1934, 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. Gove's editorial approach had editors and scholars longing for Webster's Second. Reporters across the country sounded off on Gove and his dictionary. The New York Times complained that Webster's had "surrendered to the permissive school that has been busily extending its beachhead on English instruction," the Times called on Merriam to preserve the printing plates for Webster's Second, so that a new start could be made. And soon 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."--
600	1	0	_aGove, Philip Babcock, _d1902-1972. _98958
630	0	0	_aWebster's third new international dictionary of the English language unabridged. _98959
650		0	_aEncyclopedias and dictionaries _xHistory and criticism. _98960
650		0	_aEnglish language _xLexicography _xHistory _y20th century. _98961
650		7	_aHISTORY / United States / 20th Century. _2bisacsh _98962
650		7	_aLANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / General. _2bisacsh _98963
650		7	_aLITERARY CRITICISM / Books & Reading. _2bisacsh _98964
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