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The biggest was that Gove had gone his merry way in producing what he considered to be a lexicon of the language but with little thought for those who were to use it: no one could call the MWIII “user-friendly” (certainly not in 1961, when, as far as I know, the expression had not yet gained currency):
Several philosophies of defining prevail—not too abstruse to go into in VERBATIM, but a not entirely appropriate aside here—and the style cleaved to by Gove attempts an approach that is progressively restrictive or expansive, depending on the nature of the word defined.
in the phrase ain't I ,” was not reflective of the facts: I knew many cultivated speakers in most parts of the U.S., and the only time I ever heard them say ain't was in jocular contexts or in virtual quotations, like She ain't what she used to be . I must admit that my evidence was entirely impressionistic, but Gove provided no statistical support for his contention, either.
Gove did not participate in the planning or appear on the program, although two of his colleagues gave papers, Woolf on defining and Artin on pronunciation.
It is far more likely that the preponderance of evidence would show that an entry with a capital M might—conceivably—warrant a comment like, “ rarely lower case .” Only the second entry, a noun including the senses “native[s] or inhabitant[s]; descendant; and language[s],” shows “ cap .” Where Gove's researchers came up with such highly detailed information about the distribution of such forms is hard to imagine.
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