Noah Webster, Father of the Dictionary
Author | : Isabel Proudfit |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780980156300 |
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Author | : Isabel Proudfit |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780980156300 |
Author | : Noah Webster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1122 |
Release | : 1841 |
Genre | : English language |
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Author | : Jeri Chase Ferris |
Publisher | : HarperCollins |
Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 2012-10-23 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 0547935412 |
Golden Kite Award for Nonfiction Webster’s American Dictionary is the second most popular book ever printed in English. But who was that Webster? Noah Webster (1758–1843) was a bookish Connecticut farm boy who became obsessed with uniting America through language. He spent twenty years writing two thousand pages to accomplish that, and the first 100 percent American dictionary was published in 1828 when he was seventy years old. This clever, hilariously illustrated account shines a light on early American history and the life of a man who could not rest until he’d achieved his dream. An illustrated chronology of Webster’s life makes this a picture perfect bi-og-ra-phy [noun: a written history of a person's life].
Author | : Joshua C. Kendall |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 355 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780399156991 |
Chronicles of the story of the first American-English dictionary's creator, revealing his close associations with George Washington and Ben Franklin as well as his authorship of an influential school primer and advocacy of a distinct American culture. 25,000 first printing.
Author | : Isabel Proudfit |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : Lexicographers |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Tracey Fern |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR) |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 2015-11-10 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1466895101 |
From an early age, Noah Webster was an odd fellow who liked to talk big and loved learning. He thought America needed its own national language and knew he was just the man to create it. He started with a speller, including everyday words like "scab," "grub," and "mop," and moved on to create a small dictionary. He rode around on a horse, selling his books by hand. Then Noah decided to compile a complete and comprehensive dictionary of American English. He thought the book would take him five years to finish. It took twenty, but his dictionary today is the second-most printed book in the English language.
Author | : Peter Martin |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 370 |
Release | : 2020-09-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691210179 |
Peter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a definitive national dictionary that would rival Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary of the English Language. But what began as a cultural war of independence from Britain devolved into a battle among lexicographers, authors, scholars, and publishers, all vying for dictionary supremacy and shattering forever the dream of a unified American language.
Author | : David Micklethwait |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Micklethwait, a London attorney, profiles the Yankee lexicographer who is credited with first distinguishing between British and American spellings and creating the first American dictionary. He describes Webster's (1758-1843) major publications and the influences and methods that shaped them; recounts his life as a schoolteacher, copyright champion and itinerant lecturer; and examines his legacy. He appends sample pages of the dictionaries. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.