Behind the Scenes Minis: War of the Words
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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4.2 • 24.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2023
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Tracy and Holly discuss the high volume of work produced by both Webster and Worcester, the inconsistencies in Webster's work, and learning languages.
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| 1:29.3 | Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of I Heart Radio. |
| 1:45.4 | Hello and happy Friday. I'm Tracy Epilsen and I'm Holly Fry. |
| 1:50.8 | We spent all this week talking about the dictionary wars, first talking about Noah Webster and Joseph |
| 1:56.4 | Emerson Wooster and then talking about the dictionary wars themselves. |
| 2:01.9 | It's probably clear that between Wooster and Webster, I have an obvious favorite and it's Wooster. |
| 2:13.0 | Because you know, while I can be a cranky person with weird opinions, |
| 2:17.8 | I feel like it had some flavors of like Tesla versus Edison or other disputes where it felt |
| 2:26.0 | like one person kind of became the underdog where while another person kind of rolled over and |
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