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Noah Webster (October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843) was an American lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and author. He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship and Education".
Dissertation on the English Language was a book written by American lexicographer Noah Webster in 1789. The book followed Webster's 1783 work Spelling Book and aimed to differentiate American English from British English. [1] In the book, Webster commented that "our honor requires us to have a system of our own, in language as well as government.
The Reverend Mr. Thomas Dilworth (died 1780) was an English cleric and author of a widely used schoolbook, both in Great Britain and America, A New Guide to the English Tongue. Noah Webster as a boy studied Dilworth's book, and was inspired partly by it to create his own spelling book on completely different principles, using pictures and ...
"Reviewed Work: Essays on Education in the Early Republic by Frederick Rudolph". British Journal of Educational Studies. 14 (3). Taylor & Francis, Ltd. for Society for Educational Studies: 100–101. doi:10.2307/3119702. JSTOR 3119702. Nakosteen, Mehdi (Spring 1966). "Reviewed Work: Essays on Education in the Early Republic by Frederick Rudolph".
Samuel Johnson, poet, wit, essayist, biographer, critic and eccentric, broadly credited with the standardisation of English spelling into its pre-current form in his Dictionary of the English Language (1755). Noah Webster, author of the first important American dictionary, believed that Americans should adopt simpler spellings where available ...
Noah Webster - lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author; the "Father of American Scholarship and Education"; taught at Episcopal Academy for six months from April 1787 [28]
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A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language: 1806 Noah Webster: Basic: A Plea for Phonetic Spelling: 1848 Alexander John Ellis: Extended Benjamin Franklin's phonetic alphabet: 1768 Benjamin Franklin: Extended Booke at Large for the Amendment of English Orthographie: 1580 William Bullokar: Extended Cut Spelling: 1992 Christopher Upward ...