NEW HAVEN, Conn. — The announcement came in 1800 in the back of a Connecticut newspaper just above a farmer's reward for a stray cow. A man named Noah Webster was proposing the first comprehensive ...
In 1789, Noah Webster called on the newly independent United States to claim its own national version of the English language. That is what Noah Webster wrote in 1789 at the age of 31, long before he ...
The print edition of Merriam-Webster was once a touchstone of authority and stability. Then the internet brought about a ...
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