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Show Two Great Webiten Webster's dictionary was the work of Noah Webster, born in 175S at Hartford, Conn. He was a graduate of Yale and after being admitted to the bar, devoted himself chiefly to literary lit-erary work, producing his Spelling Book in 1TS3. He commenced his American Amer-ican dictionary of the English Language Lan-guage in 1SU7; he first edition of this was published in 1S2S, with a total of 70.000 words. It contained 12,000 more words and 40,000 more definitions defini-tions than any earlier English dictionary. diction-ary. He was also a Judge, a member of the state legislature and a founder of Amherst college. He died In 1S43 Daniel Webster had no connection with the making of this dictionary. He was born In New Hampshire In ITS'2 and so far as can be determined was not related In any way to Noah Webster. |