Posted on 04/14/2010 7:21:18 PM PDT by Freedom'sWorthIt
The American Minute for April 14, 2010:
Noah Webster first published his Dictionary on APRIL 14, 1828.
This 26-year project with 30,000 new definitions, standardized spelling and gave American English its identity.
Proving unprofitable, the rights were purchased after his death by George and Charles Merriam.
In the preface of his original edition, Noah Webster wrote: "In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed...
No truth is more evident to my mind than that the Christian religion must be the basis of any government intended to secure the rights and privileges of a free people."
Noah Webster concluded: "To that great and benevolent Being...who has borne me and my manuscripts in safety across the Atlantic, and given me strength and resolution to bring the work to a close, I would present the tribute of my most grateful acknowledgments."
Noah Webster's Dictionary defined "Property" as "The exclusive right of possessing, enjoying and disposing of a thing; ownership. In the beginning of the world, the Creator gave to man dominion over the earth...It is one of the greatest blessings of civil society that the property of citizens is well secured."
Read his words. Very wise man.
Dictionary a 26 year work!!!!
How many of us have the perserverance to do such a work ss this!
Better late than never with today’s American Minute. Noah Webster. Another remarkable American Christian! Enjoy!
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Indeed, one of the most wonderful examples of a Christian American patriot. What a rich heritage we have indeed! :)
Thank you for posting these ‘Minutes’; they’re both instructional and inspirational!!
I LOVE the Dictionary! LOL!
Smiling at you...
Considering I learn a new word, term, or concept almost every day; you must know I love my dictionaries, encylopedia sets, internet, library, and etc.
Yes indeed! I still remember devouring my first Encyclopedia when i was about 10 years old!
It was called “The Book Of Knowledge”
Thanks for the ping!
Yes, amen! We are SOOOOO richly blessed by our Christian heritage in this nation!
Oh, you are very welcome!! Am very glad that these American Minutes are blessing others as they have blessed me.
William Federer is a “new” national treasure.
You are very welcome, AG - as always!
Now here is a slight, um, problem I have with Webster’s Dictionary - the online version.
Did you know it does not contain the word, “ZOT”?
LOL.
I kid you not - check it out!
Of course, we here on FR all know about “zot”, don’t we????
Well, I was playing scrabble with my older sister, retired English Professor, she - and I was able to play the word “zot” on the board, giving myself probably 42 points or so on that word!!! Triple word score and all.
But no....she challenged that word!!!! I insisted it was a legitimate word - but she looked it up in the official scrabble dictionary we use - and ZOT was not there.
I said - doesn’t matter. IT IS A REAL WORD!
LOL.
So we went to her computer and looked it up on Webster’s online dictionary - and ZOT was NOT in it!!!!
Horrors of horrors - you mean to tell me that the esteemed WEBSTER’s dictionary had not been informed about this very useful and important (in our internet/blog/forum time) word yet???
Well, I insisted we keep looking and sure enough eventually I found an online dictionary that DID include the word, ZOT!
So, I was justified and proven CORRECT after all.
My sister, however, did not accept this for the game since ZOT was not in Webster’s Dictionary! So, no, I did not get my 42 points in that game.....under protest, I took that word off the board....but Webster is THE authority, of course.
So, shall we pray for the Webster dictionary people to get with it and put ZOT in their current online dictionary or what?
We had been using the urbandictionary.com to validate words but some of the definitions cannot be spoken in mixed company, so we went to m-w.com (Merriam Webster). Sadly though, they've put so much advertising on the website, it bogs the game down waiting for a response on our old Scrabble-dedicated computer.
Soooo, we've settled on dictionary.com which does have "zot" but as an acronym, so it wouldn't have helped you. Nevertheless, it has a larger dictionary and is much faster than m-w.com.
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