Webster, Noah

An educator and author of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, best known for his American Dictionary of the English Language and Blue-Backed Speller . He worked for the establishment of a distinctive American version of the English language; for example, he insisted on spellings such as wagon , center , and honor in place of the standard British waggon , centre , and honour .

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A number of widely used dictionaries still bear Webster's name.

It's worth noting that Noah Webster was a Federalist, not a radical Republican.

According to Noah Webster, the cultivation of the arts and sciences is essential to the progress of civilization and good morals.

This reminds us of the emotions which Noah Webster describes as overwhelming him when he reached the close of his dictionary.

Noah Webster was especially keen to undertake the task, and it was unfortunate that he was not chosen to do it.

At the age of twenty-two years he was graduated at Yale in the same class with Noah Webster.

Dr. Johnson never attained to that erudition; Noah Webster's ark does not hold it.

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