The Dictionary Wars: The American Fight over the English Language by Peter Martin

The Dictionary Wars: The American Fight over the English Language

Peter Martin

368 pages first pub 2019 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced

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A compelling history of the national conflicts that resulted from efforts to produce the first definitive American dictionary of EnglishIn The Dictionary Wars, Peter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a ...

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