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Wikipedia: Noah Webster, Jr. (October
16, 1758 – May 28, 1843), was an American lexicographer,
textbook pioneer, English-language spelling reformer, political
writer, editor, and prolific author. He has been called the "Father
of American Scholarship and Education". His blue-backed speller
books taught five generations of American children how to spell and
read, secularizing their education. According to Ellis (1979) he
gave Americans "a secular catechism to the
nation-state."
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.
He was one of the Founding
Fathers of the United States...
... In 1806, Webster published his
first dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English
Language. In 1807 Webster began compiling an expanded and fully
comprehensive dictionary, An American Dictionary of the English
Language; it took twenty-six years to complete. To evaluate the
etymology of words, Webster learned twenty-eight languages,
including Old English (Anglo-Saxon), Gothic, German, Greek,
Latin, Italian, Spanish, French, Dutch, Welsh, Russian, Hebrew,
Aramaic, Persian, Arabic, and Sanskrit. Webster hoped to
standardize American speech, since Americans in different parts of
the country used different languages. They also spelled, pronounced,
and used English words differently...