Webster Tome Just Keeps On Printing --Cagle

BITS AND PIECES

PERHAPS YOU had it circled on your calendar and forgot to send him a card. No matter. Noah Webster, he of abridged and unabridged dictionary fame, turned 250 and was feted in mid-October by Yale University, his alma mater.

In the early 1800s, Webster advertised in a Connecticut newspaper that he was proposing the first “dictionary of the American language,” according to the Associated Press. He taught following the Revolutionary War and felt that Americans should have their own textbooks, not Brit books.