Noah Webster, Father of the Dictionary
Author : Isabel Proudfit
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 18,90 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
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ISBN : 9780980156300
Author : Isabel Proudfit
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 18,90 MB
Release : 2008-01-01
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ISBN : 9780980156300
Author : Noah Webster
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Page : 1122 pages
File Size : 16,66 MB
Release : 1841
Category : English language
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Author : Isabel Boyd Proudfit
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 37,10 MB
Release : 1962
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Author : Jeri Chase Ferris
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 33,95 MB
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : 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
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 40,40 MB
Release : 2010
Category : 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 :
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 46,3 MB
Release : 1947
Category : Lexicographers
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Author : Tracey Fern
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 26,26 MB
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : 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 : Noah Webster
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Page : 172 pages
File Size : 42,27 MB
Release : 1832
Category : Spellers
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Author : David Micklethwait
Publisher :
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 14,25 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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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.
Author : Tracy Nelson Maurer
Publisher : Millbrook Press (Tm)
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 46,70 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1467794104
Describes the life and times of the man made famous for writing the first dictionary of the English language.