The Story of Ain't: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published by David Skinner

The Story of Ain't: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published

David Skinner

368 pages • first pub 2012 (editions)

nonfiction history informative slow-paced
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"It takes true brilliance to lift the arid tellings of lexicographic fussing into the readable realm of the thriller and the bodice-ripper....David Skinner has done precisely this, taking a fine story and honing it to popular perfection."--Simon W...

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