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dictionary at the price that Webster himself had sold it—twenty dollars, exorbitant for the age.*7 Their first order of business was to revise the 1841 edition of Noah’s American Dictionary into a single-volume dictionary that could be sold for six dollars—a
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Noah Webster sounds like a real ass.
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
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