A lady talks about visionary Noah Webster was to create the first American spellers and dictionaries. Before that, people used to just make up spellings - there were no right or wrong ways to spell.
Some visionary. This spelling stuff is all his fault, since he's the one who got it in his head that we needed to spell the same way.
I'm thinking Noah Webster was a scoundrel and they should have put him in jail for this.
The lady tells us it took him twenty years to write the dictionary, and he also wrote the first schoolbooks and grammar books. I think he must have been tipped off rocker, as my grandpa used to say.
Fish in a Tree, P153-154
Lynda Mullaly Hunt
ISBN 978-0-399-16259-6
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