Wednesday, January 11, 2006

Noah Webster, whose Blue Back Speller (1788) sold 82 million copies within a century of its publication, was a great pioneer of US English as opposed to British English. He said that establishing a national language was as important as winning the American Revolution itself. The spelling of such terms at theater instead of theatre and color instead of colour is Webster's legacy.

Is the fact that he's in my bloodline a coincidence? I think not.

posted by kc @ 4:04 PM

7 Comments:

At 4:13 PM, Blogger Andy said...

What a rubbish (note: NOT trash) idea.

P.s. Rubbish is biblical, whereas trash is not. Watch and learn.

:-)

 
At 10:13 AM, Blogger andyd said...

If we all decided to change words because the don't suit us the world would be in a terrible state. What a poor man...a terrible legacy to the world!

 
At 10:30 AM, Anonymous Jo said...

wheres the "queer friends post"??

:)

 
At 11:39 AM, Blogger Rich said...

Basically I think he couldn't spell properly and therefore decided to write a book on it helping millions of others to achieve poor spelling...

 
At 3:32 PM, Anonymous carole said...

heya KC.one thing to say to you. WOLVES MATCH ON JAN29th on sky sports if your up to watching it with me. caz :)

 
At 4:02 PM, Blogger Kat said...

so you're trying to redeem yourself, eh? haha

 
At 4:53 AM, Blogger Tim said...

Andy and Rich...If you remember the story of Thanksgiving the Pilgrims were leaving Great Brittian to avoid religous persecution. What is failed to be communicated is that not only were the fleeing from such religous persecution, but also from that of language. They fled to America to preserve the truth of Chritianity and the true English Language; and Mr. Webster did the World a favor by writing in to a book for further preservation. But I am only glad that Britan has preserved enough of the true English language so that we can still communicate...
Just kiddin' fellas.
A great post KC...!?!

 

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