Noah Webster
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Yet he is primarily remembered as the lexicographer of the American Dictionary of the English Language (1828), whose legacy lives on in today\u00e2\u0080\u0099s Merriam-Webster dictionaries. Webster\u00e2\u0080\u0099s American Dictionary surpassed Samuel Johnson\u00e2\u0080\u0099s groundbreaking Dictionary of the English Language (1755) by documenting words, idioms, and pronunciations that were unique to the United States. He standardized the simplified spellings that still differentiate American English from British English, dropping the \u00e2\u0080\u009cu\u00e2\u0080\u009d from \u00e2\u0080\u009ccolour,\u00e2\u0080\u009d for example."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Webster considered the founding of the United States an opportunity for reinvention. \u00e2\u0080\u009cNow is the time and this the country in which we may expect success in attempting changes to language, science, and government,\u00e2\u0080\u009d he wrote in 1789. \u00e2\u0080\u009cLet us then seize the present moment and establish a national language as well as a national government.\u00e2\u0080\u009d"}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Nacido en West Hartford, Connecticut"}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Noah Webster tiene merecida fama de erudite por sus aportaciones a una asombrosa variedad de disciplinas, entre ellas la reforma docente, el antiesclavismo, la epidemiolog\u00c3\u00ada, el periodismo y la ley de derechos de autor. Sin embargo, se le recuerda sobre todo como el lexic\u00c3\u00b3grafo del American Dictionary of the English Language (1828), cuyo legado perdura hoy en los diccionarios MerriamWebster. El diccionario americano de Webster sobrepas\u00c3\u00b3 al paradigm\u00c3\u00a1tico diccionario de la lengua inglesa (1755) de Samuel Johnson al recoger palabras, modismos y pronunciaciones espec\u00c3\u00adficas de EE.UU. Webster estandariz\u00c3\u00b3 la ortograf\u00c3\u00ada simplificada que a\u00c3\u00ban distingue al ingl\u00c3\u00a9s americano del brit\u00c3\u00a1nico, por ejemplo, omitiendo la \u00e2\u0080\u009cu\u00e2\u0080\u009d de \u00e2\u0080\u009ccolour\u00e2\u0080\u009d."}, {"label": "Exhibition Label", "content": "Webster vio en la fundaci\u00c3\u00b3n de Estados Unidos una oportunidad para la reinvenci\u00c3\u00b3n. En 1789 escribi\u00c3\u00b3: \u00e2\u0080\u009cAhora es el momento y este es el pa\u00c3\u00ads en que podemos aspirar a cambiar con \u00c3\u00a9xito el lenguaje, la ciencia y el gobierno. Aprovechemos la hora presente y establezcamos un lenguaje nacional as\u00c3\u00ad como un gobierno nacional\u00e2\u0080\u009d."}, {"label": "Provenance", "content": "William A. Ellis, Bloomfield, New Jersey[ d. 1966]; gift 1967 of his estate to NPG."}], "creditLine": [{"label": "Credit Line", "content": "National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of William A. 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