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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 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.

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The Dictionary Wars
  • Author : Peter Martin
  • Release : 08 September 2020
  • Publisher : Princeton University Press
  • ISBN : 9780691210179
  • Genre : History
  • Total Page : 370 pages
  • Language : English
  • PDF File Size : 17,9 Mb

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