Sunday, November 12, 2023

A missing word

David Skinner tells the story of “the only major expletive left out of Webster’s Third”: “Philip Gove and ‘Our Word’” (The American Scholar ).

Related reading
All OCA dictionary posts (Pinboard) : The Story of Ain’t (Skinner’s history of W3)

2 comments:

  1. Broken link: https://theamericanscholar.org/philip-gove-and-our-word/

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  2. Now fixed — thanks. The h of http was missing.

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