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In its long history, the English vocabulary has already established many lawmakers - those who have tried to modify or otherwise organize the way we speak. The Lexicographer's Issue poses a set of questions: Exactly what does proper English indicate? And who reaches say what's right? Our ideas of right or proper English have a brief history, and today's debates over the state of the vocabulary - whether about Ebonics in classes, the unique use of vocabulary in a South Playground episode, or break up infinitives in the Times - make sense only in historical framework. As historian Jack port Lynch has uncovered, every guideline has a human history, and the character types who populate his narrative are as interesting because of their obsessions for their erudition. Charting the evolution of English with wit and intellect, he offers a rich historical perspective that makes us appreciate a new the hard-won benchmarks we now enjoy.
