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Archive Home > 2008 > October > 13 > Mocked to mandatory: Noah Webster honored on his 250th birthday

Mocked to mandatory: Noah Webster honored on his 250th birthday

His ‘American’ dictionary first proposed in 1800

By John Christoffersen / The Bulletin
October 13, 2008

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 “dictionary of the American language.”

Webster was mocked....

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