At first thought, and second I’m sure, of what a book review of a dictionary would be like, most people could only imagine it as long and boring, full of numerous technical terms and words that no normal person could foresee to know anything about. Who would want to read such a thing? But what David Foster Wallace manages to do with this review stretch far beyond the mere dictionary. Technically his reason for writing this work is to review Mr. Bryan A. Garner’s A Dictionary of Modern American Usage. He does this very successfully and highly promotes the dictionary. He loved it. What made his writing a truly great work is what he brought into this review. He delves much deeper into the actual language than one might suspect. Wallace starts out with the idea of a “Democratic Spirit.” This is the ideal that everything is not Dogmatic and all of the vexing questions about usage cannot just be “worked out.” (72) He stresses that language is built not off of a supreme authority, but is found through different points of speech and dialects. One of his main and most interesting arguments was that of the SNOOTlet. This is the sort of child that uses Standard Written English (SWE) perfectly and always uses whom correctly. While many teachers think that this kind of child is quite talented, Wallace has a different idea. Wallace says, “The little A+ SNOOTlet is actually in the same dialectal position as the class’s ‘slow’ kid who can’t learn to stop using ain’t or bringed” (104). Both children are harassed in different ways, both are similar because they lack, “the ability to move between various dialects and levels of ‘correctness’” (104). “[The] SNOOTlet is actually deficient in Language Arts. He has only one dialect. He cannot alter his vocabulary, usage, or grammar; cannot use slang or vulgarity.” This is a powerful image to illustrate his point. We all can imagine that one ‘slow’ kid in school, but w