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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: lexicographer's dilemma
    sub title: the evolution of "proper" English, from Shakespeare to South Park
  name:
    name part: Lynch, Jack (John T.)
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2009
    edition: 1st U.S. ed.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: viii, 326 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm.
  table of contents: Vulgarities 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.
  note: Jack Lynch.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Lexicography
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Style
  subject:
    topic: English language
    topic: Usage
  classification: PE1611 .L96 2009
  classification: 423/.028
  identifier: 9780802717009
  identifier: 0802717004
  identifier: 2009019195
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 090513
    record change date: 20151113121438.0
    record identifier: in00002537334