The Dictionary Wars: The American Fight Over the English Language

by Peter Martin

Book Overview

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 Language. But what began as a cultural war of independence from Britain devolved...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691188912
• ISBN13: 9780691188911
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.6"