Calling out censorship
Madeline Kripke favored profanity and obscenity and collected many works published during the Great Censorship, when the Comstock Act of ...
Tag: Kripke Collection
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A Chinful of Slang
You Chirped a Chinful! Including Private Bill’s Dictionary of Service Men’s Chin Chatter [1943] is a bit of World War ... -
A Family Dictionary
Ed Finegan and I have just submitted the Cambridge Handbook of the Dictionary to Cambridge University Press. If you’re a ... -
Websteriana
Any large collection of dictionaries will overflow with works by Noah Webster, but Madeline Kripke also had a collector’s eye ... -
Dig This Dictionary!
Madeline Kripke was born in 1943, so she lived through the rise of teen culture and teen-directed marketing in real ... -
It Wasn’t All Greek to Steve A. Demakapoulos
John Florio (1552–1625) was well-positioned to write an Italian–English dictionary. His father Michelangelo, an Italian Protestant (of all things), fled ... -
Advertising Dictionaries
Early dictionaries were books for readers. Lacking the tools of twenty-first century marketing, early dictionary publishers advertised a forthcoming dictionary ... -
The All-American Spelling Bee
Madeline Kripke’s collection is famous as a collection of dictionaries and related works, so it comes as a surprise to ... -
Exercising Dictionaries
If a company publishes school dictionaries, it probably wants students and teachers to use their dictionaries effectively, so it comes ... -
Marketing Webster’s Third: The Big Book as a Big Box
This is yet another story of a box within a box among the thousand and more boxes comprising the unpacked ...