Details the origins of Noah Webster's first American English dictionary and the struggles of Webster and Ben Franklin to help unify the new country through language in the 1780s.
A comprehensive guide to American idioms that explains the meanings and origins of thousands of American English idioms, common phrases, and colloquialisms.
Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide information on how to speak and write effectively, featuring entries that provide information about a particular word or set of words, and essay entries that address larger questions of usage and style.
a dictionary of words, phrases, and colloquialisms peculiar to the United States, British America, the West Indies, &c., &c. : derivation, meaning, and application, together with numerous anecdotal, historical, explanatory, and folk-lore notes
Contains alphabetically arranged entries that provide over 350,000 definitions of English words, with pronunciations, and syllable breaks, and includes biographical and geographical entries, illustrations, language guidance, and etymological information.
