gove
gove — biographical name
1. Philip Babcock Gove (1902–1972), an American lexicographer remembered as the edi
Philip Babcock Gove (1902–1972), an American lexicographer remembered as the editor-in-chief of Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1961), a landmark revision that stirred wide public discussion about how dictionaries should record language.
Gove's editorial team spent nearly a decade collecting real-world usage examples for Webster's Third.
Newspapers in the 1960s criticised Gove for including informal words in the dictionary.
formal → informal shift under Gove's editorship
Linguists still cite Gove's introduction when discussing how dictionaries define common words.
Gove believed that a dictionary should describe how people actually speak, not just prescribe rules.
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This name is most often encountered in discussions of 20th-century American lexicography. Gove is typically referred to by his surname alone, or as 'Philip Gove' — the middle name 'Babcock' appears mainly in formal biographical contexts.