Peter Martin
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
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 into a battle among lexicographers,...