vintageanchor: “Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground”—Noah Webster Today is the birthday of the compiler of the first American language dictionary, Noah Webster (born today in 1758; and died 1843).

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“Language is not an abstract construction of the learned, or of dictionary makers, but is something arising out of the work, needs, ties, joys, affections, tastes, of long generations of humanity, and has its bases broad and low, close to the ground”
—Noah Webster

Today is the birthday of the compiler of the first American language dictionary, Noah Webster (born today in 1758; and died 1843).

(Source: vintageanchorbooks, via thetinhouse)