The Story of Webster's Third: Philip Gove's Controversial Dictionary and Its Critics by Herbert C. Morton

The Story of Webster's Third: Philip Gove's Controversial Dictionary and Its Critics

Herbert C. Morton

360 pages • first pub 1994 (view editions)

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The publication of Webster's Third New International Dictionary in 1961 set off a storm of intense controversy in both the popular press and in scholarly journals due to widespread disagreements about the nature of language and the role of the dic...

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