Noah Webster (October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843) was an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor...
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Webster's Dictionary is any of the US English language dictionaries edited in the early 19th century by Noah Webster (1758–1843), a US lexicographer, as...
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after Noah Webster died, the company bought the rights to An American Dictionary of the English Language from Webster's estate. All Merriam-Webster dictionaries...
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The Noah Webster House is a historic house museum located at 227 South Main Street, West Hartford, Connecticut. It was the boyhood home of American lexicographer...
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was an American lexicographer who was the chief competitor to Noah Webster of Webster's Dictionary in the mid-nineteenth-century. Their rivalry became...
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personality Kyle Wallack, head hockey coach at Albertus Magnus College Noah Webster, lexicographer, textbook author, Bible translator, spelling reformer...
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In 1806, American Noah Webster published his first dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language. In 1807 Webster began compiling an expanded...
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poet Noah Watts (born 1983), American actor Noah Webster (1758–1843), American lexicographer Noah Weißhaupt (born 2001), German footballer Noah Wekesa...
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important American followers was Noah Webster (1758–1843). In 1785, two years before America's constitutional convention, Webster relied heavily on Rousseau's...
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nineteenth-century lexicographers, Noah Webster and Joseph Emerson Worcester, argued fiercely over Johnson's legacy ... In 1789 [Webster] declared that 'Great Britain...
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finger wrapped around the glass at the bottom. Another definition (from Noah Webster): "nearly an inch." Finger is also the name of a longer unit of length...
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following the work of Noah Webster and, in particular, his An American Dictionary of the English Language, first published in 1828. Webster's efforts at spelling...
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Language was a book written by American lexicographer Noah Webster in 1789. The book followed Webster's 1783 work Spelling Book and aimed to differentiate...
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became a new national system of education. After the American Revolution, Noah Webster used content from Emile in his best-selling schoolbooks and he also used...
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adopted partially or temporarily. Many of the spellings preferred by Noah Webster have become standard in the United States, but have not been adopted...
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of any size in the southern parts of British North America, with, as Noah Webster noted, "farm" becoming the usual term from about Maryland northward....
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particular contribution towards integrating these differences came from Noah Webster, who wrote the first American dictionary (published 1828) with the intention...
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as Kitty Carter, a sex worker for Margaret Wells Eric Kofi-Abrefa as Noah Webster (season 2) Angela Griffin as Elizabeth Harvey (Series 3) Tom Fisher as...
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She and Webster had two children together, another daughter named Grace and a son named Noah Webster. After the death of his first wife, Webster was frequently...
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bulk of the Anglo-Saxon settlement in Britain, they were speculated by Noah Webster to have given England its name, and Grigsby remarks that on the continent...
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English Language by Noah Webster, LL.D. Thoroughly Revised, and Greatly Enlarged and Improved, by Chauncey A. Goodrich, D.D., and Noah Porter, D.D. Springfield...
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Noah Webster Overstreet FAIA (1888–1973) was an American architect in practice in Jackson, Mississippi from 1912 to 1968. He was a Fellow in the American...
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American Dictionary of the English Language, known as Webster's Dictionary, was written by Noah Webster in 1828, codifying several of these spellings. Differences...
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Harry Redcay (1966). Noah Webster, schoolmaster to America. New York: Octagon. p. 66. Harris, Micah (2024-09-01). "Noah Webster and the Influence of Rousseau...
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neger in American English dates from 1625 in Rhode Island. Lexicographer Noah Webster suggested the neger spelling in place of negro in his 1806 dictionary...
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Noah Webster's 1833 limited revision of the King James Version, (more commonly called Webster Bible) focused mainly on replacing archaic words and making...
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books. After the death of Noah Webster, the lexicographer, the Merriams purchased the right of future publication of Webster's Dictionary. Wilson, J. G...
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magnitude. This is in agreement with previous studies in 1994 and 2007. Noah Webster (1884) A Practical Dictionary of the English Language "Laurentian". Oxford...
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New England and New York. In 1932 his sculpture of dictionary writer, Noah Webster was unveiled in West Hartford, Connecticut. In 1939, Ziolkowski was hired...
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American clergyman, educator and lexicographer. He was the son-in-law of Noah Webster and edited his Dictionary after his father-in-law's death. Goodrich was...
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