Noah webster

On social media, ‘Merriam-Webster’s’ has served as a biting critique of the Trump regime.Yet its creator, Noah Webster, was an avowed nationalist and born-again Christian whose goal was to create and preserve a monolithic American culture.

It is the birthday of lexicographer Noah Webster (1758), who is best known for compiling the first American dictionary and the blue-back s...

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language was first published April 14, 1828

When Noah Webster died on May 28, 1843, it was already accepted that his name would forever be remembered in the history of the written w...

Webster’s enemies took revenge in their own newspapers, calling the stiff-postured patriot a fool, “a most learned Stultus,” a “pusillanimous, half-begotten, self-dubbed patriot,” a “scribble of British faction, this ephemeron of literature, this petite maitre of politics.” Webster was called a “demagogue coxcomb” and many other fancy insults one might decode with the help of a dictionary.

Noah Webster’s New Haven house was both “workshop” and home. Here, Webster completed his first American dictionary in 1828, as well as later works. At this family home, Noah & Rebecca Webster enjoyed spending time with children and grandchildren.

Happy National Dictionary Day! On this day, we celebrate the birthday of Noah Webster, who is considered by many to be the father of the American dictionary!

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How the Webster’s Dictionary Came To Be: The Story of Noah Webster ----- Noah wrote the Webster’s Dictionary because Americans spoke and used words differently.

Contract signed by Noah Webster. Oddly, it contains no defined terms.