When America stopped caring about dictionaries?
What's a dictionary? David Skinner joins Jim Blasingame to talk about the history of dictionaries, how they were developed and published, and why we have generations who have never used one.
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Communicating, Publishing
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For good or bad, America's language has evolved. David Skinner joins Jim Blasingame to talk about how America's language has evolved and not always in a good way, plus how much Webster's legitimizing of the word "ain't" contributed.
Did the 1961 Webster's Third Dictionary change America? David Skinner joins Jim Blasingame to discuss America, its language, and and how the Webster's Third Dictionary caused controversy by legitimizing "ain't."
