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Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Noah Webster and his Dictionary

After the success of the Blue-Back Speller (see previous post.) Noah Webster started working on defining the words that Americans use. He did this because Americans speak and use words differently than the English. He also wanted people in different parts of the country to speak and spell the same way.

In his dictionary, he used American spellings like "color" instead of the English "colour" and "music and stead of "musick." His first edition, A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1806 with 37,000 words. When he finished his American Dictionary of the English Language in 1828, he had defined over 65,000 words.

Whenever I google a word, I am going to think of Noah Webster and how he worked for 27 years to finish his Webster Dictionary.


Mary Greenwood, Mediator, Attorney and Author of
How To Negotiate LIke A Pro: 41 Rules for Resolving Disputes, Winner of six book awards
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How To Mediate Like A Pro: 42 Rules for Mediating Disputes
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