The Dictionary Wars: The American Fight over the English Language - Peter Martin Audiobook
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Books About Books
Dictionaries
History Of The English Language
Noah Webster
Recorded Books
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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, authors, scholars, and publishers, all vying for dictionary supremacy and shattering forever the dream of a unified American language.
The overwhelming questions in the dictionary wars involved which and whose English was truly American and whether a dictionary of English should attempt to be American at all, independent from Britain. Martin tells the human story of the intense rivalry between America’s first lexicographers, Noah Webster and Joseph Emerson Worcester, who fought over who could best represent the soul and identity of American culture. Webster believed an American dictionary, like the American language, ought to be informed by the nation’s republican principles, but Worcester thought that such language reforms were reckless and went too far. Their conflict continued beyond Webster’s death, when the no-nonsense Merriam brothers acquired publishing rights to Webster’s American Dictionary and launched their own language wars. From the beginning of the 19th century to the end of the Civil War, the dictionary wars also engaged America’s colleges, libraries, newspapers, religious groups, and state legislatures at a pivotal historical moment that coincided with rising literacy and the print revolution.
Delving into the personal stories and national debates that arose from the conflicts surrounding America’s first dictionaries, The Dictionary Wars examines the linguistic struggles that underpinned the founding and growth of a nation.
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This post has 7 comments with rating of 5/5
September 23rd, 2021
There is a conspiracy theory in Iraq, and probably the Arabic speaking countries, where you find kooks assert that the Americans are seeking to deviate from the English language so much as to eventually announce that they have a different language, the American language. It seems that this endeavor is still a dream, as the Americans still fail to achieve this goal. Or maybe they are afraid of the English people to rebuke them. Maybe the Russians would slap them on their hands if they did. Or maybe China would demand immediate payment of all its debt. So that is why it is still a dream and not a reality. :)
September 23rd, 2021
You could make a case that British English is the world written language and the spoken language is American English.
September 23rd, 2021
you probably don’t want to know what the Americans think people in Iraq are up to. It mostly involves farm animals, though.
September 24th, 2021
I read this a bit ago, and it’s quite good.
I can’t speak to the audiobook version, but the book was, surprisingly, something of a pageturner.
January 22nd, 2022
sounds fascinating, thanks, and alas…there is an extiction of most of the original languages spoken :(
January 22nd, 2022
sounds fascinating, thanks, and alas…there is an extinction of most of the original languages spoken :(
January 22nd, 2022
….well, they’ve gone
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