Format:
XV, 332 S.
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Ill.
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1. publ.
ISBN:
0521461464
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The publication of Webster's Third New International Dictionary in 1961 set off a storm of controversy both in the popular press and in scholarly journals that was virtually unprecedented in its scope and intensity. The New York Times ridiculed the new dictionary's alleged failure to label slang in a now-famous editorial that began, "A passel of double-domes at the G. & C
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Merriam Company joint in Springfield, Mass., have been confabbing and yakking for twenty-seven years...and now they have finalized...a new edition of a swell and esteemed book."
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The attack was joined by Life magazine, the Saturday Review, the Atlantic, the New Yorker, and other magazines and newspapers across the country. Critics charged that Webster's Third had abandoned its responsibility to uphold standards of good English and that it would encourage permissiveness in the teaching of English. Rejoinders by the dictionary's editor, Philip Babcock Gove, and sympathetic journalists and scholars had little effect
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Englisch
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Lexikografie
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Sprachverfall
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Ideologie
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Geschichte 1961-1965
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Webster's third new international dictionary of the English language unabridged
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Sprachkritik
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Geschichte 1961-1965
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Webster's third new international dictionary of the English language unabridged
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Amerikanisches Englisch
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Geschichte 1961
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Gove, Philip Babcock 1902-1972
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Lexikografie
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Amerikanisches Englisch
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Lexikografie
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Geschichte 1961
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Wörterbuch
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