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  • In the principles of religion and morality, Miss Sedley will be found worthy of an establishment which has been honoured by the presence of THE GREAT LEXICOGRAPHER, and the patronage of the admirable Mrs. Chapone.†   (source)
  • He was Noah Webster, then at the beginning of his stormy career as a lexicographer.†   (source)
  • They meet the ends of [Pg034] purely descriptive lexicography, but largely leave out of account some of the most salient characters of a living language, for example, pronunciation and idiom.†   (source)
  • He was already the acknowledged magister of lexicography in America, and there was an active public demand for a dictionary that should be wholly American.†   (source)
  • His American Dictionary was not only thoroughly American: it was superior to any of the current dictionaries of the English, so much so that for a good many years it remained "a sort of mine for British lexicography to exploit."†   (source)
  • William Kenrick, in 1773, seems to have been the first English lexicographer to denounce this pronunciation.†   (source)
  • So nearly universal is this nasalization in the United States that certain American lexicographers have sought to found the term upon /bran/ and not upon /brand/.†   (source)
  • It held the field for half a century, not only against Worcester and the other American lexicographers who followed him, but also against the best dictionaries produced in England.†   (source)
  • Joseph E. Worcester and other rival lexicographers stood against many of his pronunciations, and he took the field against them in the prefaces to the successive editions of his spelling-books.†   (source)
  • Webster had declared boldly for simpler spellings in his early spelling books; in his dictionary of 1806 he made an assault at all arms upon some of the dearest prejudices of English lexicographers.†   (source)
  • But, like most other lexicographers, he was often inconsistent, and the conflict between /interiour/ and /exterior/, and /anteriour/ and /posterior/, in his dictionary, laid him open to much mocking criticism.†   (source)
  • Many characteristic Americanisms of the sort to stagger lexicographers—for example, /near-silk/—have come from the Jews, whose progress in business is a good deal faster than their progress in English.†   (source)
  • The English lexicographer, John Walker, had argued for this "affectation" in 1791, but Webster's prestige, while he lived, remained so high in some quarters that he carried the day, and the older professors at Yale, it is said, continued to use /natur/ down to 1839.†   (source)
  • § 3 /The Influence of Webster/—At the time of the first settlement of America the rules of English orthography were beautifully vague, and so we find the early documents full of spellings that would give an English lexicographer much pain today.†   (source)
  • Bailey, Dyche and the other lexicographers before him were divided and uncertain; Johnson declared for the /u/, and though his reasons were very shaky[4] and he often neglected his own precept, his authority was sufficient to set up a usage which still defies attack in England.†   (source)
  • Fetch stonecrop mixt with cedar and branches of lilac,
    This is the lexicographer, this the chemist, this made a grammar of
    the old cartouches,
    These mariners put the ship through dangerous unknown seas.†   (source)
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