Noah Webster published A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language in 1806. His 1828 follow-up contained 70,000 entries. By 1864, the collection had 114,000 ...
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary took nine years to write and included 42,773 entries.This large two volume book is one of the first editions of the famous dictionary written by Samuel Johnson, which was ...
In 1789, Noah Webster wrote something radical. “There is to be no elite in America, no linguistic differentiation between classes and regions.” No, he wasn’t one of the Founding Fathers. He’s the ...
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Black Americans have long contributed to the ways in which the English language is used, and now a new research project aims to compile the first Oxford Dictionary of African American English.
Marc Weingarten is the author of the forthcoming "The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight: Wolfe, Mailer, Didion and the New Journalism Revolution." Ilan STAVANS is uniquely qualified to ponder the ...
"Based on A dictionary of English costume, 900-1900 by C.W. and P.E. Cunnington and Charles Beard, now completely revised, updated and supplemented to the present day by Valerie Cumming." "A ...
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