1 All quotations are taken from Noah Webster’s twenty page preface to his Compendious Dictionary of the English Language, New
York: Crown Publishers, 1970 (originally published in New Haven, Connecticut, in January, 1806).
2 Webster, 1806, p. xxii.
3 Webster, 1806, p. vii.
4 Webster, 1806, pp. viii-ix.
5 Webster, 1806, p. ix.
6 Webster, 1806, p. ix.
7 Webster, 1806, p. 15.
8 Webster, 1806, p. 4.