Raven I. McDavid
Contributor
Professor of English and of Linguistics, University of Chicago, 1964–77. Coauthor of The Pronunciation of English in the Atlantic States; editor of H.L. Mencken's The American Language.
Primary Contributions (1)
Noah Webster was an American lexicographer known for his American Spelling Book (1783) and his American Dictionary of the English Language, 2 vol. (1828; 2nd ed., 1840). Webster was instrumental in giving American English a dignity and vitality of its own. Both his speller and dictionary reflected…
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