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Baron, Dennis E. – 1982
Tracing both current concern for correctness in speech and writing and continued suspicion of formal language regulation, this book explores the history of American language reform and failure. The first three chapters examine early attitudes toward the English language in the New World, and the development of the concept of Federal English in…
Descriptors: Diachronic Linguistics, Dictionaries, Educational Change, Educational History
