A compelling history of the national conflicts that resulted from efforts to produce the first definitive American dictionary of English In The Dictionary Wars, 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 La


Format Inbunden Omfång 368 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Princeton University Press Utgivningsdatum 2019-05-28 ISBN 9780691188911