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2. 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 ...

3. Noah Webster - Wikipedia

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   Webster, Noah. The American Spelling Book: Containing the Rudiments of the English Language for the Use of Schools in the United States by Noah Webster 1836 edition online, the famous Blue- Backed Speller; Webster, Noah. An American dictionary of the English language 1848 edition online; Webster, Noah.

4. English-language spelling reform - Wikipedia

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   [7]: 18 In 1806, Noah Webster published his first dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language. It included an essay on the oddities of modern orthography and his proposals for reform. Many of the spellings he used, such as color and center, would become hallmarks of American English. In 1807, Webster began compiling an expanded ...

5. A Dictionary of the English Language - Wikipedia

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   It was also linguistically conservative, advocating traditional spellings such as publick rather than the simpler spellings that would be favoured 73 years later by Noah Webster. The dictionary is in alphabetical order according to the eighteenth-century English alphabet. In the eighteenth century, the letters I and J were considered different ...

6. Joseph Emerson Worcester - Wikipedia

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   Worcester's first edited dictionary was an abridgment of Samuel Johnson's English Dictionary, as Improved by Todd, and Abridged by Chalmers; with Walker's Pronouncing Dictionary Combined, published in the United States in 1827, [5] the year before Noah Webster's American Dictionary appeared. Having worked as an assistant on the production of ...

7. William Adolphus Wheeler - Wikipedia

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   He was employed as general reviser of the edition of Noah Webster's dictionary published in 1864, and contributed to it an "Explanatory and Pronouncing Vocabulary of the Names of Noted Fictitious Persons and Places", which was enlarged and published separately (Boston and London, 1865). [1] [2]

8. 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 ...

9. John Ash (divine) - Wikipedia

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   Reference to Ash's New and Complete Dictionary. Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Texts pertaining to the Study of English in Eighteenth-Century Great Britain (at Emory.edu) The codifiers and the English language: tracing the norms of Standard English; Micklethwait, David (2000). Noah Webster and the American Dictionary. Jefferson, NC ...