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Noah Webster's “A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language” (1806)
- peter_d_sherman 4y agoRelated: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merriam-Webster https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merriam-Webster >"Noah Webster In 1806, Webster published his first dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language. In 1807 Webster started two decades of intensive work to expand his publication into a fully comprehensive dictionary, An American Dictionary of the English Language. To help him trace the etymology of words, Webster learned 26 languages. Webster hoped to standardize American speech, since Americans in different parts of the country used somewhat different vocabularies and spelled, pronounced, and used words differently."