The Dictionary Wars
Language: en
Pages: 370
Authors: Peter Martin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-09-08 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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Peter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a definitive national dictionary that would rival Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dic
The Dictionary Wars
Language: en
Pages: 368
Authors: Peter Martin
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-05-28 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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Peter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a definitive national dictionary that would rival Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dic
The Dictionary Wars
Language: en
Pages: 369
Authors: Peter Martin
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-05-28 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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A compelling history of the national conflicts that resulted from efforts to produce the first definitive American dictionary of English In The Dictionary Wars,
Historical Dictionary of the Russian Civil Wars, 1916-1926
Language: en
Pages: 1471
Authors: Jonathan D. Smele
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-11-19 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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This book is a detailed reference of the twentieth century struggles that were waged across and beyond the decaying Russian Empire at the end of the First World
The Language Wars
Language: en
Pages: 418
Authors: Henry Hitchings
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-10-25 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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The English language is a battlefield. Since the age of Shakespeare, arguments over correct usage have been bitter, and have always really been about contesting