Story of Webster's Third Philip Gove's Controversial Dictionary and Its Critics

The publication of Webster's Third New International Dictionary in 1961 set off a storm of controversy in both the popular press and in scholarly journals that was virtually unprecedented in its scope and intensity. This is the first full account of the controversy, set within the larger background of how the dictionary was planned and put together by its editor-in-chief, Philip Babcock Gove.Morton, Herbert C. is the author of 'Story of Webster's Third Philip Gove's Controversial Dictionary and Its Critics', published 1995 under ISBN 9780521558693 and ISBN 0521558697.