英语词汇webster-s的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Webster’s. Noah Webster’s name has become a synonym for a dictionary since he published his Compendious Dictionary of the English Language in 1806 and his larger An American Dic- tionary of the English Language 22 years later. But the “father of American lexicography” was a man of widespread interests, publishing many diverse books over his long career. These in- cluded his famous Sketches of American Policy (1785), on histo- ry and politics; Dissertations on the English Language (1789), advocating spelling reform; and A Brief History of Epidemic and Pestilential Diseases (1799). Webster also found time to edit The American Magazine and the newspaper The Minerva. Beginning in 1806, he lived on the income from his speller— which sold at the rate of over 1 million copies a year—while he took the 22 years needed to complete his monumental dic- tionary. Webster’s, as it came to be called (it is now published as Webster’s Dictionary by Merriam) helped standardize American spelling and pronunciation and recorded many Americanisms.

词汇	webster-s
词源	Webster’s. Noah Webster’s name has become a synonym for a dictionary since he published his Compendious Dictionary of the English Language in 1806 and his larger An American Dic- tionary of the English Language 22 years later. But the “father of American lexicography” was a man of widespread interests, publishing many diverse books over his long career. These in- cluded his famous Sketches of American Policy (1785), on histo- ry and politics; Dissertations on the English Language (1789), advocating spelling reform; and A Brief History of Epidemic and Pestilential Diseases (1799). Webster also found time to edit The American Magazine and the newspaper The Minerva. Beginning in 1806, he lived on the income from his speller— which sold at the rate of over 1 million copies a year—while he took the 22 years needed to complete his monumental dic- tionary. Webster’s, as it came to be called (it is now published as Webster’s Dictionary by Merriam) helped standardize American spelling and pronunciation and recorded many Americanisms.
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