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Dissertations on the English Language

by Noah Webster

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Webster at thirty-one, arguing that America should not take its speech from London: the history of English, the errors of Lowth and Johnson, the case for pronunciation settled by general usage rather than the court — and the appendix proposing a reformed spelling, with Franklin’s arguments for it.

The declaration of independence for American English. Download the free EPUB.

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