Today’s Between the Covers podcast is with David Skinner, author of The Story of Ain’t: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published. We discuss how a dictionary can be controversial, whether dictionaries should prescribe rules or reflect the way people actually speak, and Skinner’s favorite desk dictionary.
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About the Author
John J. Miller, a former national correspondent for National Review, is the director of the Dow Journalism Program at Hillsdale College. He is the author of A Gift of Freedom: How the John M. Olin Foundation Changed America.
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