I was sent a copy of Noah Webster and His Words by Jeri Chase Ferris Noah Webster and His Words by Jeri Chase Ferris Release Date: 2015-09-01 Golden Kite Award for NonfictionWebster’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…
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