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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. Vulgarities of Speech Homo Sapiens Learns to Speak
2. The Age in Which I Live John Dryden Revises His Works
3. Proper Words in Proper Places Jonathan Swift Demands an Academy
4. Enchaining Syllables, Lashing the Wind Samuel Johnson Lays Down the Law
5. The Art of Using Words Properly Joseph Priestley Seeks Genuine and Established Principles
6. The People in These States Noah Webster Americanizes the Language
7. Words, Words, Words James Murray Surveys Anglicity
8. The Taste and Fancy of the Speller George Bernard Shaw Rewrites the ABCs
9. Direct, Simple, Brief, Vigorous, and Lucid Henry Watson Fowler Shows the Way
10. Sabotage in Springfield Philip Gove Stokes the Flames
11. Expletive Deleted George Carlin Vexes the Censors
12. Grammar, and Nonsense, and Learning We Look to the Future
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
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