A Dictionary of the English Language: Abridged From the American Dictionary, for the Use of Primary Schools and the Counting House (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Noah Webster

 
9780265598153: A Dictionary of the English Language: Abridged From the American Dictionary, for the Use of Primary Schools and the Counting House (Classic Reprint)

Synopsis

Excerpt from A Dictionary of the English Language<br/><br/>The orthography of dispatch, instructor, visitor, which Johnson altered without any good reason, not only in opposition to the practice of all that cluster of distinguished authors who adorned the beginning of the last cen tury, but in contradiction of his own practice, in some of his writings, has been restored....

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Noah Webster was born in West Hartford, Connecticut in 1758. He came of age during the American Revolution and was instrumental in developing education in early America. He wrote and published the first truly American dictionary.

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