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100 1 $aLynch, Jack$q(John T.)
245 14 $aThe lexicographer's dilemma :$bthe evolution of "proper" English, from Shakespeare to South Park /$cJack Lynch.
250 $aPbk. ed.
260 $aNew York, N.Y. :$bWalker & Co.,$c2010.
300 $aviii, 326 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, facsimiles, portraits ;$c22 cm
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500 $aOriginally published: 2009.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 279-313) and index.
505 0 $aVulgarities of speech : homo sapiens learns to speak -- The age in which I live : John Dryden revises his works -- Proper words in proper places : Jonathan Swift demands an academy -- Enchaining syllables, lashing the wind : Samuel Johnson lays down the law -- The art of using words properly : Joseph Priestley seeks genuine and established principles -- The people in these states : Noah Webster Americanizes the language -- Words, words, words : James Murray surveys anglicity -- The taste and fancy of the speller : George Bernard Shaw rewrites the ABCs -- Direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid : Henry Watson Fowler shows the way -- Sabotage in Springfield : Philip Gove stokes the flames -- Expletive deleted : George Carlin vexes the censors -- Grammar, and nonsense, and learning : we look to the future.
520 $aWhat does proper English mean, and who gets to say what's right? Lynch has discovered every rule of English usage has a human history, and makes sense only in a historical context. They're more like rules of etiquette, made by fallible people and subject to change.
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