Today’s lesson looks at the man who wrote the book on American English. Noah Webster’s dictionary is an indispensable tool for success in your academic career – and beyond. NOAH Webster is called the ...

THE origin of “Webster” dates from a notable period in the history of works of reference, the second half of the eighteenth century. Noah Webster, a teacher in the United States, entered upon his ...

At the risk of showing my age, I will admit that I began school before the advent of spell-check. When I didn't know how to spell a word, my teachers told me to look it up in the dictionary. I never ...

No more convincing proof of the extent to which the English language has been enriched as a result of the wonderful activity in scientific circles during recent years could be found than this new ...

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 a previous post, I discussed Noah Webster's compulsive nature. His "touch of madness" -- his obsession with compiling and organizing information of all sorts -- enabled him to devote thirty years ...

From their Springfield headquarters, a team of lexicographers is defending the honor of the English language in an era of “alternative facts.” THIS IS WHERE YOU find the words. All of the words. The ...

If the signs of a healthy language include words being created or adding new meanings to words we already have then the English language must be "very" healthy. Webster's Dictionary just added 690 ...

In 1961 a cultural storm broke out in America, a forerunner of battles over political correctness. The fury was over publication of Webster’s Third New International Dictionary. At 2,700 pages and 450 ...

At the risk of showing my age, I will admit that I began school before the advent of spell-check. When I didn’t know how to spell a word, my teachers told me to look it up in the dictionary. I never ...