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The range of language is, of course, vast, and one should not treat with contempt those parts of the book that deal with matters considered “common knowledge”: those parts that seem recondite to one are common knowledge to another.
Green is correct in writing that the (unabridged Funk & Wagnalls) Standard Dictionary of the English Language (1893) gives two pronunciations for each entry, but he is mistaken in reporting that one represents the popular pronunciation, the other showing the precise one [p.364]: there are two pronunciations because one employs a more popular, presumably understandable pronunciation key (called, in the phonetics trade, a broad transcription) while the other cleaves to a scholarly transcription (called a narrow transcription); if such a pattern were followed today, the first would be the simplified system used generally in most dictionaries and the second would employ the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet (which, for their more recondite transcriptions, require a trained phonetician for their understanding).
The linguists who write books seem invariably to be scholars who are touting their own points of view, some of which are recondite, to say the least.
One can hardly expect to become steeped in the recondite style of a dictionary in such brief encounters, especially since they might well be for entirely different purposes.
Fred Wertheimer of Democracy 21, a reform group, notes other recondite anti-reform measures that Lott might try to sneak in.
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