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2. Noah Webster - Wikipedia

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   At the age of seventy, Webster published his dictionary in 1828, registering the copyright on April 14. [50] Despite its significant place in the history of American English, Webster's first dictionary sold only 2,500 copies. He was forced to mortgage his home to develop a second edition, and for the rest of his life, he had debt problems. [51]

3. Webster's Dictionary - Wikipedia

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   Noah Webster's assistant, and later chief competitor, Joseph Emerson Worcester, and Webster's son-in-law Chauncey A. Goodrich, published an abridgment of Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language in 1829, with the same number of words and Webster's full definitions, but with truncated literary references and expanded ...

4. Comparison of English dictionaries - Wikipedia

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   The American Heritage College Dictionary: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: 2002 4th [b] (ISBN 0-547-24766-4) 2010 1,664 American: Diacritical: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Merriam-Webster: 1898 11th, revised (ISBN 0877798079) 2019 (01.08) 1,664 165,000 American: Diacritical: Webster's New World College Dictionary: HarperCollins: 1953 5th ...

5. Template:1828 Webster's Dictionary - Wikipedia

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   This template should be placed on the main page of a Wikipedia article that includes text from Webster's Dictionary (1828). The template is a wrapper around the standard template {{cite encyclopedia}}. It takes a number of optional parameters: Parameters that default to known values and display with those values

6. Joseph Emerson Worcester - Wikipedia

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   Joseph Emerson Worcester (August 24, 1784 – October 27, 1865) was an American lexicographer who was the chief competitor to Noah Webster of Webster's Dictionary in the mid-nineteenth-century. Their rivalry became known as the "dictionary wars".

7. Template:1828 Webster's Dictionary/doc - Wikipedia

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8. American and British English spelling differences - Wikipedia

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   Today's British English spellings mostly follow Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language (1755), while many American English spellings follow Webster's An American Dictionary of the English Language ("ADEL", "Webster's Dictionary", 1828). [2] Webster was a proponent of English spelling reform for reasons both philological and

9. Easton's Bible Dictionary - Wikipedia

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   Easton's Bible Dictionary (1894) book cover. The Illustrated Bible Dictionary, [a] better known as Easton's Bible Dictionary, is a reference work on topics related to the Christian Bible, compiled by Matthew George Easton. The first edition was published in 1893, [1] and a revised edition was published the following year. [2]