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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 ...
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]
In 1996, Merriam-Webster launched its first website, which provided free access to an online dictionary and thesaurus. [ 10 ] Merriam-Webster has also published dictionaries of synonyms , English usage , geography ( Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary ), biography , proper names , medical terms , sports terms, slang , Spanish/English, and ...
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The Merriam-Webster Dictionary (MWD) Merriam-Webster: 1828 18th (rev., ISBN 978-0877790952) 2022 (25.10) 960 (mass-market) 75,000 American: Diacritical: New Oxford American Dictionary (NOAD) Oxford University Press: 2001 3rd (ISBN 0-19-539288-4) 2010 2,096 350,000 American: Diacritical: Oxford Dictionary of English: Oxford University Press: 1998
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Sherman Converse publishes Noah Webster's 70,000 word American Dictionary of the English Language. [5] Elizabeth Caroline Grey's The Skeleton Count, or The Vampire Mistress is published; it is considered by some to be the first vampire story by a woman author. [6] John Payne Collier produces a script of Punch and Judy. [7]