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ISBN10: 0786421576, ISBN13: 9780786421572, [publisher: McFarland & Co Inc] Softcover New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days. Generally credited with distinguishing American spelling and usage from British, lexicographer Noah Webster shunned prescriptive mores and was doggedly loyal to his own language habits. This book covers Webster's major publications and the influences and methods that shaped them. [Southport, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2005]
ISBN10: 0786421576, ISBN13: 9780786421572, [publisher: McFarland] Softcover New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000. [Fairford, GLOS, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2004]
Paperback / softback. New. Generally credited with distinguishing American spelling and usage from British, lexicographer Noah Webster shunned prescriptive mores and was doggedly loyal to his own language habits. This book covers Webster's major publications and the influences and methods that shaped them. ISBN 0786421576 9780786421572 [GB]
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McFarland 11/30/2004 12: 00: 00 AM Softcover PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
ISBN10: 0786421576, ISBN13: 9780786421572, [publisher: McFarland and Company, Inc. 1/21/2005] Softcover Noah Webster and the American Dictionary 1.4 [Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2005]
ISBN10: 0786421576, ISBN13: 9780786421572, [publisher: Mcfarland And Company, Inc.] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Noah Webster was described by the publisher of a competing dictionary as ''a vain . plodding Yankee, who aspired to be a second Johnson''--a criticism that rings mostly true. He was certainly vain and, born in Connecticut, undeniably a Yankee. Moreover, though he referred to Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language as a ''barren desart of philology,'' the American lexicographer relied heavily on the book during the creation of his own American Dictionary, going so far as to filch whole sections. And few would seem more ''plodding'' than Webster, who was positively obsessed with collecting and preserving bits of information. He kept records of the weather, carefully logged the number of houses in every new town he passed through, filed away every scrap of his writing and everything written about him, and filled the margins of his books with references, dates and corrections.The proud Yankee's sensibilities, however, also made him a fine lexicographer. Generally credited with distinguishing American spelling and usage from British, Webster shunned prescriptive mores and was doggedly loyal to his own language habits, as well as to those of the average American speaker.The book covers Webster's major publications and the influences and met ...
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