gove
gove — 人名
1. Philip Babcock Gove (1902–1972), an American lexicographer remembered as the edi
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美國辭典編纂者，主編韋氏第三版
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.
Gove 的編輯團隊花了近十年時間為《韋氏第三版》收集實際的用法例句。
Newspapers in the 1960s criticised Gove for including informal words in the dictionary.
1960 年代的報紙批評 Gove 把非正式用語收進辭典中。
formal → informal shift under Gove's editorship
Linguists still cite Gove's introduction when discussing how dictionaries define common words.
語言學家在討論辭典如何定義常用詞時，仍會引用 Gove 的導言。
Gove believed that a dictionary should describe how people actually speak, not just prescribe rules.
Gove 認為辭典應該描述人們實際的說話方式，而不只是規定規則。
用法筆記
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.