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16 unusual facts about Noah Webster


1806 in the United States

Noah Webster publishes A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, his first American English dictionary.

Centrocercus

In the time of Lewis and Clark the word 'pheasant' stood for "a genus of gallinaceous birds," according to lexicographer Noah Webster (1806), and the explorers often used it in that sense.

Copyright Act of 1831

The bill is largely the result of lobbying efforts by American lexicographer Noah Webster.

E. Jennifer Monaghan

In 1983 her dissertation, Noah Webster’s Speller, 1783-1843: Causes of Its Success as Reading Text, was a co-winner of the biennial Outstanding Dissertation Award offered by the Society for the Study of Curriculum.

John Longmuir

He edited a combined version of John Walker's and Noah Webster's Dictionaries (London, 1864), and Walker's Rhyming Dictionary (London, 1865), with an introduction on English versification.

Lyman Cobb

Lyman Cobb (1800 – 1864) was the leading competitor of Noah Webster as an author of spelling books.

New Haven Museum and Historical Society

The Museum features exhibitions on New Haven, La Amistad, local art and decorative arts, with collections associated with Eli Whitney, Winchester, Yale, East Rock, Noah Webster, Benedict Arnold as well as changing exhibitions.

Noah Webster

Webster's name has become synonymous with "dictionary" in the United States, especially the modern Merriam-Webster dictionary that was first published in 1828 as An American Dictionary of the English Language.

(October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843), was a lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author.

Parallelepiped

Noah Webster (1806) includes the spelling parallelopiped.

Symphony in Slang

Minimalist and abstract in style (many of the "gags" are created either with single, still frames or limited animation), it tells the story of a man John Brown, who finds himself at the Pearly Gates explaining the story of his life to a bewildered Saint Peter and Noah Webster using slang of that era.

Synarchism

The attribution can be found in the Webster's Dictionary (the American Dictionary of the English Language, published by Noah Webster in 1828).

Webster's Revision

Noah Webster's 1833 limited revision of the King James Bible focused mainly on replacing archaic words and making simple grammatical changes.

William Greenleaf Eliot

Their mothers were siblings, as well as sisters of Rebecca Greenleaf (she married Noah Webster.) The Eliots had 14 children but not all survived to adulthood.

William W. Ellsworth

Born in Windsor on November 10, 1791, Ellsworth was the son of Founding Father Oliver Ellsworth, and son-in-law of Noah Webster, who named Ellsworth executor of his will.

On September 14, 1813, he was married to Emily S. Webster, eldest daughter of Rebecca Greenleaf and Noah Webster Jr., publisher of dictionaries.


George Merriam

After the death of Noah Webster, the lexicographer, the Merriams purchased the right of future publication of Webster's Dictionary.

Merriam-Webster

In 1843, after Noah Webster's death, George and Charles Merriam secured publishing and revision rights to the 1840 edition of the dictionary.