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In 1806, American Noah Webster published his first dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language. In 1807 Webster began compiling an expanded and fully comprehensive dictionary, An American Dictionary of the English Language; it took twenty-seven years to complete.
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Dec 5, 2022 · COMPENDIOUS DICTIONARY. OF THE. English Language. In which FIVE THOUSAND Words are added to the number found in the BEST ENGLISH COMPENDS; The ORTHOGRAPHY is, in some instances, corrected; The PRONUNCIATION marked by an Accent or other suitable Direction; And the DEFINITIONS of many Words amended and improved.
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Events. January–March. January 1. The French Republican Calendar is abolished. The Kingdom of Bavaria is established by Napoleon. January 5 – The body of British naval leader Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson, lies in state in the Painted Hall of Greenwich Hospital, London, prior to his funeral.
March 29 – Construction is authorized of the National Road (the first United States federal highway). April 18 – The U.S. Congress passes the Non-importation Act in an attempt to coerce Great Britain to suspend its impressment of American sailors and to respect American sovereignty and neutrality on the high seas.
Following publication of his 1806 Compendious Dictionary, Noah Webster immediately began work on a comprehensive dictionary of the English language in order to standardize American vocabulary and spelling.
His first dictionary, A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, appeared in 1806. In it, he popularized features which would become a hallmark of American English spelling ( center rather than centre , honor rather than honour , program rather than programme , etc.) and included technical terms from the arts and sciences rather than ...
1806 - Noah Webster publishes his first American English dictionary. It was known, in full, as the "A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language," and boasted that it included more than five hundred words never before added to any other English compends amongst a total of thirty-seven thousand words.
