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~ Phillip Babcock Gove Quotes ~
« on: July 27, 2015, 04:16:12 PM »
Phillip Babcock Gove Quotes


An American lexicographer who was editor-in-chief of the controversial Webster's Third New International Dictionary, published in 1961. 
Philip Babcock Gove (1902-1972) was an American lexicographer who was editor-in-chief of the controversial Webster's Third New International Dictionary, published in 1961.

Here are some famous quotes by Phillip Babcock Gove.




A dictionary should be descriptive not prescriptive.
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Re: ~ Phillip Babcock Gove Quotes ~
« Reply #1 on: July 27, 2015, 04:16:51 PM »
The responsibility of a dictionary is to record a language not set its style.
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