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Benjamin, Curtis, 238
Benton, William, 221, 224, 298–99
Bernays, Edward L., 124, 243
Bernstein, Theodore M., 256–57
Bethel, J. P.
as general editor at Merriam-Webster, 163, 165, 301
hiring of Philip Gove by, 140
planning for Webster’s Third by, 134–36
search for Webster’s Third editor by, 141, 143, 145–46
Bible, 11, 220, 224, 254
biographical information
in Webster’s Second, 4–5, 90–91, 133–34
in Webster’s Third, 135, 137, 257–58
Black Books technical memoranda, 200-212
Bloomfield, Leonard
Bergen Evans on, 270
Philip Gove on, 230
historical linguistics of, 277
linguistic research and Language book by, 81–87
Charles Sleeth on pronunciation and, 196
as structural linguist, 301
Blum, Leon, 78–79
bombing terminology, 126–31
Book-of-the-Month Club, 6, 53, 112, 224
books, literary. See literary works
Bowdler, Thomas, 24
Bradley, Henry, 51–52
Buckley, William F., Jr., 222
Bulkley, James, 246, 264–65, 287–88
Bulletin of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, 256–57
BusinessWeek (magazine), 12, 244–45, 275
Canby, Henry Seidel
as Book-of-the-Month Club selector, 112, 301
on communism, 99
early career of, 51–55
as editor of Saturday Review, 6, 38, 301
Dwight Macdonald on, 40, 155
in study by Sterling Andrus Leonard, 71
capitalization, 211–12, 276–77
Carhart, Paul W., 59
Carlyle, Thomas, 47
cartoon, New Yorker, 273
Cassidy, Frederic, 148–50, 277
Caswell, Harry, 289
Cather, Willa, 34–35
censorship, 24–25, 61–62
Century Dictionary, 136
change, language and, xii–xiv, 85, 182, 271–72
Chief British Poets of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries (book), 25
childhood terminology, 214–15
Chinaman, 204
Churchill, Winston, 10–11, 74, 126–30
citation files, 135, 201–5
class, language and
Leonard Bloomfield on, 83–85
Charles Carpenter Fries on, 113–21, 185
Philip Gove on, 203
classics. See Harvard Classics; literary works
Coates, Robert, 216
Cold War terminology, 159, 216–17
College English (magazine), 294–95
Collegiate Dictionary, 193, 237, 296
colloquial language. See also American language; informal English; nonstandard English; slang; taboo language
ain’t as, 150, 284–85
Henry Seidel Canby on, 53–55
Charles Carpenter Fries on, 114
Philip Gove on spoken language as, 203–4
Philip Gove’s defense of not labeling, in Webster’s Third, 248
in illustrative quotations of Webster’s Third, 248
labeling of, in Webster’s Second, 5
in pronouncing dictionary, 190–91
James Sledd on, in Webster’s Third, 269, 295
Harry Warfel on, as informal language, 185
Columbia University, 148, 154, 227
commas, 281
Commission on English Language, 288
communism
Cold War terminology on, 99–100, 159
criticism of spirit of, in Webster’s Third, 261–62
Dwight Macdonald’s interest in, 67, 77–80, 97–103, 151, 219
competition, dictionary, 136
computer terminology, 214
Comstock, Anthony, 24
Conant, James Bryant, 145
confabbing, 248
Consider the Lobster (book), 298
constitutional amendments, 93
context
definition style of Webster’s Third and, 201–8
meaning and, 119
Copperud, Roy, 268
Corcoran, Brewster, 289
cost
Webster’s Second, 2
Webster’s Third, 241
Cowley, Malcolm, 98
Craigie, William A., 52
culture. See American culture
“Current English Usage” paper, 69–75
darky, 91
death, dying and euphemisms for, 47, 139
Declaration of Independence parody, 111–12
definitions, Webster’s Third. See also meaning
criticism of, by Dwight Macdonald, 276–77
criticism of, by Wilson Follett, 259
criticism of verbosity of, 260–61
Philip Gove on, 201–12, 231–32
de Kruif, Paul, 144, 155
derogatory language, 41, 204–5, 293. See also taboo language
Dewey, John, 99
dictionaries. See also lexicography
American Heritage Dictionary, 295–96
competition between, 136
Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary, 136, 191, 194
by G. & C. Merriam Company (see G. & C. Merriam Company; Webster’s Second; Webster’s Third)
Philip Gove’s research on early, 107–10
multivolume, 134–35, 138–39
production costs of, 2, 241
sales of, 193, 195–97, 236–37, 298
specialized, 135, 137–38
Dictionary of American English, 52
Dictionary of American Regional English, 149
Dictionary of Contemporary American Usage, A, 251–52
Dictionary of the English Language, A, 289
different than and different from, 73, 94, 258
dirty words. See taboo language
disinterested, 280
do, don’t, and doesn’t, 117
Dodson, Stephen, 298
don’t, 73–74, 117
door, 260–61, 272
double negatives, 31, 50, 85, 115
Driscoll, Ann, 14
due to, 11, 118, 252, 259, 302
Durant, Will, 155
Eaker, Ira C., 124–31
Editor & Publisher (magazine), 268
editorializing, Philip Gove on, 206
education
adult, 6, 34
colloquial language in, 204
dictionaries and, 4–6, 236–37
female, 19–21, 58, 139
Charles Carpenter Fries on English language, 46–48, 115–16, 120–21
Robert Hutchins on, 81–82
as masscult, 224
William Allan Neilson on, 26–28, 58–59, 139
terminology of, 214
theory of evolution in, 20
ego, 279, 284, 285
Eisenhower, Dwight D., 10, 123, 127, 227–28, 255–56
either, 117, 120
Eliot, Charles William, 5, 19–21, 22–25, 61, 302
Emrich, Richard S., 261–62
Encounter (magazine), 222
Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc., 221, 224, 298–99
encyclopedic information, Webster’s Third, 137–38, 174, 209–10, 257–58, 271
English language. See American language; informal English; nonstandard English; standard English; substandard English
English Language Arts, The (book), 179–187, 229–31, 27
6, 278
enormity, 247–49, 260, 271
Erskine, John, 154
ethnic slurs. See derogatory language
etiquette books, 34
Evans, Bergen, 251–54, 269–73, 288–289, 302
Evans, Walker, 64, 77, 96
evolution, theory of, 6, 20
expanded forms, 119–20, 147
Fadiman, Clifton, 221
fascism, 99–101
fast food, 213
federal government, study of letters to, 113–21
Federal Writers Project, 96
female education, 19–21, 58, 139
film terminology, 52–53
Finley, John H., 5
Follett, Wilson
criticism of Dictionary of Contemporary American Usage by, 252–54
criticism of Webster’s Third by, 16, 257–60, 292
as English professor and critic, 302
James Parton on, 264
rebuttal of, by Bergen Evans, 269–72
on usage panel of American Heritage Dictionary, 295
Edward Weeks on, 288–89
foreign language, 51, 270–71
formal platform speech, 5, 19, 91. See also spoken language
Fortune (magazine), 63–66, 77–80, 95–99, 124
Fourteen Points, 92
Francis, W. Nelson, 231, 288
Fries, Charles Carpenter
Jacques Barzun on, 227–29
Leonard Bloomfield and, 87
influence of, on NCTE English Language Arts concepts, 180–87
on lay and lie, 120, 150
as linguist and English educator, 302
linguistic research by, 45–50, 112–21
Albert Marckwardt and Frederic Cassidy as students of, 148–50, 277
fuck, 89, 204, 295
function words, 118–19
Funk & Wagnalls Standard Dictionary, 136, 191, 194
G. & C. Merriam Company. See also Gallan, Gordon J.; Gove, Philip B.; Munroe, Robert C.; Neilson, William Allan; Webster’s Second; Webster’s Third
attempts of American Heritage to buy, 235–40, 263–66, 287–90
hiring of Philip Gove by, 139–40
lexicographical procedures at, 199–212
planning by, for Webster’s Third, 133–39, 189–97
press release by, announcing Webster’s Third, 9–11
promotion of Philip Gove to managing editor at, 165–66
publication of Webster’s Second by, 1–7
sale of, to Encyclopedia Britannica, Inc., 298–99
sales of dictionaries by, 236-7, 263-4, 298
search by, for Webster’s Third editor, 141, 143–49
W. Freeman Twaddell as resident editor at, 163–65
Gallan, Gordon J.
Philip Gove and, 13, 209
planning by, for Webster’s Third, 195–97
as president of G. & C. Merriam Company, 302
in press release announcing Webster’s Third, 9–10
resistence of, to selling G. & C. Merriam Company, 236–39, 263–65, 287–88
response of, to criticism of Webster’s Third, 244–45
veto of taboo language by, 204
galore, 278–79
General Form (book), 228–29
generative linguistics, 271. See also linguistics
genitives, 117–18
gerunds, 117–18
gnostomania, 280
God, 212
God and Man at Yale (book), 222
Good Grammar Week, 30
Gove, Grace, 13–14, 34, 106–10, 140, 167–68, 302
Gove, Philip B.
article by, on linguistics and lexicography, 229–33
celebration of publication of Webster’s Third by, 13–14
criticism of, by Dwight Macdonald, 275–77, 285
criticism of, by James Parton, 240
criticisms and defenses of, 296–98
defense of Webster’s Third by, 16–17, 244–45, 247–50
editorial ambivalence of, 293–94
as editor of Webster’s Third, 302
as English instructor for AT&T, 34
Bergen Evans and, 270–72
hiring of, by G. & C. Merriam Company, 139–40
lexicography research by, 105–10
meeting of, with Dwight Macdonald, 245
New Yorker cartoon about, 273
note by, to his daughter’s second-grade teacher, 167–70
preface to Webster’s Third by, 241–242
in press release announcing Webster’s Third, 10–11
on procedures and policies for Webster’s Third, 11–13, 171–77, 201–12
promotion of, to managing editor, 165–66
on pronunciation in Webster’s Third, 192–97
request of, for promotion to vice presidency, 209
this book about, xiii
wife of (see Gove, Grace)
grammar. See also usage
Jacques Barzun on, 228–29
Leonard Bloomfield on, 81–87
dictionaries as authorities on (see authority, dictionary as)
Wilson Follett on, 258
Charles Carpenter Fries on, 113–21
Philip Gove on, 233
Sterling Andrus Leonard on, 69–75
Lindley Murray’s standard reference on, 45
NCTE English Language Arts on, 179–87
Scribner Handbook of English on, 149–50
in Webster’s Second, 93–94
Great Books Club, 220–22, 224, 298–99
Greenberg, Clement, 101, 103, 155–56
Grimm, Jacob, 84
Hadden, Briton, 53, 63
hapax legomena, 207
Harper’s (magazine), 146, 273, 297–98
Harris, Arthur, 126
Hart, Albert Bushnell, 5, 7, 173
Harvard Classics, 7, 22–25, 61, 81–82, 100, 148
Harvard University, 4–5, 21–25, 145
heighth, 247, 297
Hellman, Geoffrey, 77, 97
high culture, 224–25. See also American culture
Hill, William C., 5–6
historical linguistics, 48-50, 277. See also linguistics
Holt, Guy, 239
Holt, Lucius, 137
Hook, Sidney, 98–100
hot dog, 60, 175–76
House Is Not a Home, A (book), 33–34
House of Intellect, The (book), 227–29, 235
Howard, James Merriam, 289
Hutchins, Robert, 81–82, 87, 221
illustrations
pictures as, 137
quotations as (see quotations, illustrative)
verbal, 205–6
imply and infer, 5, 251, 260–61
infinitives, split, 1, 11, 50, 93, 117
informal English. See also American language; colloquial language; nonstandard English; slang
Charles Carpenter Fries on, 112–21
New York Times on, 256
Harry R. Warfel on, 184–87
Inge, William Ralph, 261–62
in terms of, 147
International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), 190–97, 278
Introduction to the English Language (book), 149
irregardless, 247–48, 251, 271, 297
irritate, 47
it is me, 50, 94, 231
Ives, Sumner, 288
James, Henry, 16, 30-31, 37, 103, 222,
jargon, Jacques Barzun on, 146–47, 301
Jespersen, Otto, 71, 211
jive, 160, 203
Johnson, Lyndon B., 299
Johnson, Samuel, 107–10
, 253, 269
journalism. See newspapers
journalistic, 145–46, 176–77
Joyce, James, 1, 95
Kennan, George, 216–17
Kennedy, John F., 9, 255
Kenyon, John S., 190–91
Kenyon-Knott pronouncing dictionary, 190–91, 194, 232–33
kike, 293
Kilburn, Patrick E., 295–96
King, Delcevare, 33
King James Bible, Revised Standard Version, 220, 224
Kinsey, Alfred, 153–54
kitsch, 101, 103, 155–56. See also American culture
Kittredge, George Lyman, 22, 191
Knott, Thomas A., 59, 190–91
know and knowed, 280, 281
Kolb, Gwin J., 110
Krapp, George Philip, 71
Kronvall, Edward, 289
Kurath, Hans, 145
Language (book), 81–87, 196, 230, 270
language, American. See American language
lay and lie, 5, 93–94, 120, 150
Leonard, Sterling Andrus, 69–75, 149, 302
Leonard, William Ellery, 191
letters, linguistic research using, 113–21
Lewis, Sinclair, 33, 35, 100, 144, 208
lexicography. See also dictionaries
by G. & C. Merriam Company, 163–65, 199–212
Philip Gove on linguistics and, 171–77, 229–33
Philip Gove’s research on, 107–10
Dwight Macdonald on, 275–76
Library Journal, 260
lie and lay, 5, 93–94, 120, 150
Life (magazine), 246–52, 271
like and as, 11, 251–54, 258
Lincoln, Abraham, 31–32
linguistics. See also American language
Jacques Barzun on, 227–29
Leonard Bloomfield on, 81–87
Bergen Evans on, 270–71
Wilson Follett on, 252
Charles Carpenter Fries on, 45–50, 112–21
Philip Gove on lexicography and, 11–13, 171–77, 229–33
at Harvard University, 22
Sterling Andrus Leonard on, 69–75
Dwight Macdonald on, 16–17, 273–82
Albert Marckwardt on, 149, 294
H. L. Mencken on, 29–35
NCTE English Language Arts on, 179–87
pronunciations in Webster’s Third and, 192–97
as science of language, xiii, 20, 145, 149–50
James Sledd on, 284
Harry R. Warfel on, 184–87
“Linguistics Advances and Lexicography” (article), 229–33
literary works
Leonard Bloomfield on linguistics and, 86–87
Book-of-the-Month Club, 6, 53, 112, 224
Henry Seidel Canby on, 51–55
Federal Writers Project and, 96
Great Books Club, 220–22, 224, 298–99
Harvard Classics, 7, 22–25, 61, 81–82, 100, 148