{"id":38826,"date":"2013-09-27T17:28:20","date_gmt":"2013-09-27T23:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/27\/its-the-end-of-the-lexicographical-world-as-we-know-it.html"},"modified":"2013-09-27T20:12:26","modified_gmt":"2013-09-28T02:12:26","slug":"its-the-end-of-the-lexicographical-world-as-we-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/27\/its-the-end-of-the-lexicographical-world-as-we-know-it.html","title":{"rendered":"It's the End of the Lexicographical World As We Know It!"},"content":{"rendered":"
Or maybe it ain't.<\/p>\n

Very fun article (on\u00a0a book now on my wish list) about the Websters Second (1934) and Websters Third (1961) dictionaries, and how they epitomized the prescriptive vs descriptive schools of dictionary writing.<\/p>\n

Having found myself in rather vehement arguments about this lately, it was … amusing. Especially the "continuing the cycle of abuse" argument.<\/p><\/div>\n

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The Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published<\/a>
\n David Skinner\u2019s wonderful book, The Story of Ain\u2019t: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published, arrives in paperback tomorrow. The following transcript is adapted from an interview with Skinner on an episode of the Lexicon Valley podcast. MIKE VUOLO: The Story of Ain\u2019t is about a dictionary…\n <\/p>\n

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Or maybe it ain't. Very fun article (on\u00a0a book now on my wish list) about the Websters Second (1934) and Websters Third (1961) dictionaries, and how they epitomized the prescriptive vs descriptive schools of dictionary writing. Having found myself in rather vehement arguments about this lately, it was … amusing. Especially the "continuing the cycle … Continue reading “It's the End of the Lexicographical World As We Know It!”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,24,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-writing-and-language","category-zt-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5014,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2003\/11\/17\/mcjobs_the_deno.html","url_meta":{"origin":38826,"position":0},"title":"McJobs, the Denouement","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 17-Nov-03 8:11am","format":false,"excerpt":"After the Merriam-Websters McJobs flurry (not to be confused with a McFlurry) of a week ago seems to be dying down, I got a trackback from the Swedish site that...","rel":"","context":"In "Big Business"","block_context":{"text":"Big Business","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/big-business"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38831,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38826\/revisions\/38831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}