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Lindley Murray

American grammarian

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role in history of English

  • global use of the English language
    In English language: Age of Johnson

    …view was well maintained by Lindley Murray, a native of Pennsylvania who settled in England in the very year (1784) of Johnson’s death. Murray’s English Grammar appeared in 1795, became immensely popular, and went into numerous editions. It was followed by an English Reader (1799) and an English Spelling Book…

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