The Common Tongue: Noah Webster and the American Dictionary
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The Common Tongue: Noah Webster and the American Dictionary
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Noah Webster spent twenty-six years giving a scattered people a common language, and he won. What we are losing now is not the words but the common ground beneath them.
Sourced from the Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society, Encyclopædia Britannica, the U.S. Census Bureau's historical statistics of the 1790 census, the New Netherland Institute, and Noah Webster's own Dissertations on the English Language and the 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language.
Cover image: frontispiece portrait and title page, Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language, New York: S. Converse, 1828. First edition, University of California Libraries copy, via Internet Archive. Public domain.
Narration is AI-generated using a voice model trained on the author's own voice.