<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">There's a new post on the <DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><DIV><A href="www.uiuc.edu/goto/weboflanguage">Web of Language:</A><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Spell the American way on National Dictionary Day</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">October 16 is the birthday of the American lexicographer Noah Webster. It’s also “National Dictionary Day.” In his own time Webster was most famous for the blue-backed spelling books from which American children learned their ABC’s, but thanks to the popularity of his 1828 </SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><I><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">American Dictionary of the English Language,</SPAN></FONT></I></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> his name also became synonymous with dictionary. </SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">This year, to celebrate National Dictionary Day, the editors at the </SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><I><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Oxford American Dictionary</SPAN></FONT></I></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> have decided to honor the great American lexicographer by revising the spelling of two words to reflect the latest American spelling trends. </SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=3737179"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">According to ABC News,</SPAN></FONT></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> after reviewing 2 billion words of contemporary American prose, Oxford’s lexicographers have determined that since 49% of Americans write </SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><I><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">vocal chords</SPAN></FONT></I></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> and 46% choose </SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><I><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">free reign,</SPAN></FONT></I></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> these innovative spellings will now appear alongside the more conventional </SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><I><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">vocal cords</SPAN></FONT></I></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> and </SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><I><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">free rein. </SPAN></FONT></I></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">This decision to recognize variant spellings, like a president pardoning murderers and White House staffers who lie to grand juries, is likely to anger purists who are convinced that the job of dictionaries is to propose language laws and see that others obey them. But lexicographers aren’t language cops. Their job is to record English as people use it, not to impose their idea of how it should be used on the rest of us.</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">That very descriptive job description won’t silence the loud opposition that </SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><I><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">vocal chords</SPAN></FONT></I></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> is likely to produce. There will be letters in the </SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><I><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Times</SPAN></FONT></I></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"> from long-retired British colonels who will pop their monocles while admonishing Oxford for giving Americans free reign over English, thereby violating the dictionary-maker’s Hippocratic oath as stated by their own great lexicographer, Samuel Johnson, while on the other side of the pond high school teachers whose job, as defined by the federal government, is to leave no child behind, will campaign to ban such outlandish spellings from standardized tests and they’ll tut tut that that poor old Mr. Webster must be spinning in his grave.</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Verdana; min-height: 12px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px;">Neither the colonels nor the teachers will be correct. . . .</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>to find out why, read the rest of this post on </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><A href="www.uiuc.edu/goto/weboflanguage">The Web of Language</A><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV></DIV><DIV><A href="http://www.uiuc.edu/goto/weboflanguage">www.uiuc.edu/goto/weboflanguage</A></DIV><BR><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; 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