Author: Emily Ellsworth Ford Skeel
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Category : Educators
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Notes on the Life of Noah Webster
Author: Emily Ellsworth Ford Skeel
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Category : Educators
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Publisher:
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Category : Educators
Languages : en
Pages : 608
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Notes on the Life of Noah Webster
Author: Emily Ellsworth Fowler Ford
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Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Languages : en
Pages : 578
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Notes on the Life of Noah Webster
Author: Emily Ellsworth Ford Skeel
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Notes on the lifed of Noah Webster
Author: Emily Ellsworth Fowler Ford
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The Dictionary Wars
Author: Peter Martin
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691210179
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Peter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a definitive national dictionary that would rival Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary of the English Language. But what began as a cultural war of independence from Britain devolved into a battle among lexicographers, authors, scholars, and publishers, all vying for dictionary supremacy and shattering forever the dream of a unified American language.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691210179
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Peter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a definitive national dictionary that would rival Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary of the English Language. But what began as a cultural war of independence from Britain devolved into a battle among lexicographers, authors, scholars, and publishers, all vying for dictionary supremacy and shattering forever the dream of a unified American language.
Noah Webster's Fighting Words
Author: Tracy Nelson Maurer
Publisher: Millbrook Press (Tm)
ISBN: 1467794104
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Describes the life and times of the man made famous for writing the first dictionary of the English language.
Publisher: Millbrook Press (Tm)
ISBN: 1467794104
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Describes the life and times of the man made famous for writing the first dictionary of the English language.
The American Spelling Book
Author: Noah Webster
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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An American Dictionary of the English Language
Author: Noah Webster
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1122
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Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1122
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An Inconvenient Alphabet
Author: Beth Anderson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1534405569
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
“Delightful, relatable, and eye-catchingly illustrated.” —School Library Journal “Deelytful and iloominaating for noo and seesuned reeders alyk.” —Kirkus Reviews “Thought-provoking and entertaining.” —School Library Connection “Engaging...A comprehensible, lively read.” —Publishers Weekly Do you ever wish English was eez-ee-yer to spell? Ben Franklin and Noah Webster did! Debut author Beth Anderson and the New York Times bestselling illustrator of I Dissent, Elizabeth Baddeley, tell the story of two patriots and their attempt to revolutionize the English alphabet. Once upon a revolutionary time, two great American patriots tried to make life easier. They knew how hard it was to spell words in English. They knew that sounds didn’t match letters. They knew that the problem was an inconvenient English alphabet. In 1786, Ben Franklin, at age eighty, and Noah Webster, twenty-eight, teamed up. Their goal? Make English easier to read and write. But even for great thinkers, what seems easy can turn out to be hard. Children today will be delighted to learn that when they “sound out” words, they are doing eg-zakt-lee what Ben and Noah wanted.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1534405569
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
“Delightful, relatable, and eye-catchingly illustrated.” —School Library Journal “Deelytful and iloominaating for noo and seesuned reeders alyk.” —Kirkus Reviews “Thought-provoking and entertaining.” —School Library Connection “Engaging...A comprehensible, lively read.” —Publishers Weekly Do you ever wish English was eez-ee-yer to spell? Ben Franklin and Noah Webster did! Debut author Beth Anderson and the New York Times bestselling illustrator of I Dissent, Elizabeth Baddeley, tell the story of two patriots and their attempt to revolutionize the English alphabet. Once upon a revolutionary time, two great American patriots tried to make life easier. They knew how hard it was to spell words in English. They knew that sounds didn’t match letters. They knew that the problem was an inconvenient English alphabet. In 1786, Ben Franklin, at age eighty, and Noah Webster, twenty-eight, teamed up. Their goal? Make English easier to read and write. But even for great thinkers, what seems easy can turn out to be hard. Children today will be delighted to learn that when they “sound out” words, they are doing eg-zakt-lee what Ben and Noah wanted.
Founding Grammars
Author: Rosemarie Ostler
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466846283
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A “lively and revealing” history of America’s obsession with grammar—from the debate over double negatives to the influence of frontier vernacular (Kirkus Reviews). Standard grammar and accurate spelling are widely considered hallmarks of a good education, but their exact definitions are much more contentious—capable of inciting a full-blown grammar war at the splice of a comma. With an accessible and enthusiastic approach, Ostler considers these grammatical shibboleths, tracing current debates back to America’s earliest days, an era when most families owned only two books—the Bible and a grammar primer. Along the way, she investigates colorful historical characters on both sides of the grammar debate in her efforts to unmask the origins of contemporary speech. Linguistic founding fathers like Noah Webster, Tory expatriate Lindley Murray, and post-Civil War literary critic Richard Grant White, all play a featured role in creating the rules we’ve come to use, and occasionally discard, throughout the years. Founding Grammars is for curious readers who want to know where grammar rules have come from, where they’ve been, and where they might go next.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466846283
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A “lively and revealing” history of America’s obsession with grammar—from the debate over double negatives to the influence of frontier vernacular (Kirkus Reviews). Standard grammar and accurate spelling are widely considered hallmarks of a good education, but their exact definitions are much more contentious—capable of inciting a full-blown grammar war at the splice of a comma. With an accessible and enthusiastic approach, Ostler considers these grammatical shibboleths, tracing current debates back to America’s earliest days, an era when most families owned only two books—the Bible and a grammar primer. Along the way, she investigates colorful historical characters on both sides of the grammar debate in her efforts to unmask the origins of contemporary speech. Linguistic founding fathers like Noah Webster, Tory expatriate Lindley Murray, and post-Civil War literary critic Richard Grant White, all play a featured role in creating the rules we’ve come to use, and occasionally discard, throughout the years. Founding Grammars is for curious readers who want to know where grammar rules have come from, where they’ve been, and where they might go next.