Documents that Changed the Way We Live: Webster’s Dictionary

The Authority File
09/10/2017 15 min
Documents that Changed the Way We Live: Webster’s Dictionary

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In this second episode of our 4-part series with Joe Janes, author of Documents That Changed the Way We Live, we dig into Webster’s Dictionary. Joe illuminates how Noah Webster set out to make a uniquely American dictionary that attempted to capture the identity of a still emerging country. We’ll also learn a little bit about Noah himself and how the dictionary’s contemporary version, Merriam-Webster, has become a darling of social media.

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