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000796728 1001_ $$aSkinner, David,$$d1973-$$eauthor.
000796728 24514 $$aThe story of ain't :$$bAmerica, its language, and the most controversial dictionary ever published /$$cDavid Skinner.
000796728 24630 $$aAmerica, its language, and the most controversial dictionary ever published
000796728 264_1 $$aNew York :$$bHarper Perennial,$$c2013.
000796728 300__ $$ax, 353 pages ;$$c21 cm
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000796728 337__ $$aunmediated$$bn$$2rdamedia
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000796728 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000796728 5050_ $$aPreface -- The story of ain't -- Dramatis personae -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Index.
000796728 520__ $$a"Created by the most respected American publisher of dictionaries and supervised by the editor Philip Gove, Webster's Third broke with tradition, adding thousands of new words and eliminating artificial notions of correctness, basing proper usage on how language was actually spoken. The dictionary's revolutionary style sparked what David Foster Wallace called the Fort Sumter of the Usage Wars. Editors and scholars howled for Gove's blood, calling him an enemy of clear thinking, a great relativist who was trying to sweep the English language into chaos. Critics bayed at the dictionary's permissive handling of ain't. Literary intellectuals such as Dwight Macdonald believed the dictionary's scientific approach to language and its abandonment of the old standard of usage represented nothing less than the unraveling of civilization. Entertaining and erudite, and a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice, The Story of Ain't describes a great societal metamorphosis, tracing the fallout of the world wars, the rise of an educated middle class, and the emergence of America as the undisputed leader of the free world, and illuminating how those forces shaped our language. Never before or since has a dictionary so embodied the cultural transformation of the United States."--Publisher's description.
000796728 60010 $$aGove, Philip Babcock,$$d1902-1972.
000796728 63000 $$aWebster's third new international dictionary of the English language unabridged.
000796728 650_0 $$aEncyclopedias and dictionaries$$xHistory and criticism.
000796728 650_0 $$aEnglish language$$xLexicography$$xHistory$$y20th century.
000796728 650_0 $$aEnglish language$$zUnited States$$xLexicography.
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