[PDF] Noah Websters Fighting Words eBook

Author : Tracy Maurer
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 14,11 MB
Release : 2017-02-01
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ISBN : 9781512428391

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Noah Websterfamous for writing the first dictionary of the English language as spoken in the United Stateswas known in his day for his bold ideas and strong opinions about, well, everything. Spelling. Politics. Laws. You name it, he had something to say about it. He even commented on his own opinions! With a red pencil in hand, Noah often marked up work that he had already published. So when Noah's ghost came across this new picture book biography, he couldn't help but make a few suggestions!

Author : Tracy Nelson Maurer
Publisher : Millbrook Press ™
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 12,36 MB
Release : 2017-04-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1512438693

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Noah Webster, famous for writing the first dictionary of the English language as spoken in the United States, was known in his day for his bold ideas and strong opinions about, well, everything. Spelling, politics, laws, you name it—he had something to say about it. He even commented on his own opinions! With a red pencil in hand, Noah often marked up work that he had already published. So who edited this book? It certainly looks like the ghost of the great American author and patriot picked up a pencil once again to comment on his own biography!

Author : Tracy Maurer
Publisher : Millbrook Press
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 36,50 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1467794104

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Describes the life and times of the man made famous for writing the first dictionary of the English language.

Author : Jeri Chase Ferris
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 24,95 MB
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0547935412

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Golden Kite Award for Nonfiction Webster’s American Dictionary is the second most popular book ever printed in English. But who was that Webster? Noah Webster (1758–1843) was a bookish Connecticut farm boy who became obsessed with uniting America through language. He spent twenty years writing two thousand pages to accomplish that, and the first 100 percent American dictionary was published in 1828 when he was seventy years old. This clever, hilariously illustrated account shines a light on early American history and the life of a man who could not rest until he’d achieved his dream. An illustrated chronology of Webster’s life makes this a picture perfect bi-og-ra-phy [noun: a written history of a person's life].

Author : Peter Martin
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 20,76 MB
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0691210179

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Peter Martin recounts the patriotic fervor in the early American republic to produce a definitive national dictionary that would rival Samuel Johnson's 1755 Dictionary of the English Language. But what began as a cultural war of independence from Britain devolved into a battle among lexicographers, authors, scholars, and publishers, all vying for dictionary supremacy and shattering forever the dream of a unified American language.

Author : Tracy Nelson Maurer
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 23,78 MB
Release : 2021-02-23
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1250828651

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Lady Bird Johnson, That's Who! is Tracy Nelson Maurer's lively picture book biography of Lady Bird Johnson, with a focus on her environmentalist passion and legacy as First Lady. Who fought to stop pollution? Who helped make America cleaner and greener? Lady Bird Johnson, That's Who! Claudia Alta Taylor was a lonely girl, shy as a butterfly growing up in Texas. She never dreamed she'd blossom into a visionary leader whose love for wildflowers, beautiful landscapes, and building community compelled her to lead the effort to combat pollution in the United States. A lifelong environmentalist, Lady Bird Johnson embraced her platform as First Lady to promote policy that beautified America’s roadways, waterways and parks, inspiring people to take pride in the places they live. With elements of women’s history, civics, and conservationism, this is a timely and informative picture book biography.

Author : Joshua C. Kendall
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 16,51 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780399156991

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Chronicles of the story of the first American-English dictionary's creator, revealing his close associations with George Washington and Ben Franklin as well as his authorship of an influential school primer and advocacy of a distinct American culture. 25,000 first printing.

Author : Stephen Vincent Benet
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 37,11 MB
Release : 1943-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780822203032

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THE STORY: Jabez Stone, young farmer, has just been married, and the guests are dancing at his wedding. But Jabez carries a burden, for he knows that, having sold his soul to the Devil, he must, on the stroke of midnight, deliver it up to him. Shortly before twelve Mr. Scratch, lawyer, enters and the company is thunderstruck. Jabez bids his guests begone; he has made his bargain and will pay the price. His bride, however, stands by him, and so will Daniel Webster, who has come for the festivities. Webster takes the case. But Scratch is a lawyer himself and out-argues the statesman. Webster demands a jury of real Americans, living or dead. Very well, agrees the Devil, he shall have them, and ghosts appear. Webster thunders, but to no avail, and at last realizing Scratch can better him on technical grounds, he changes his tactics and appeals to the ghostly jury, men who have retained some love of country. Rising to the height of his powers, Webster performs the miracle of winning a verdict of Not Guilty.

Author : Tracy Nelson Maurer
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 40,48 MB
Release : 2017-03-28
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1250158311

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Back in the 1830s, who was a young blacksmith from Vermont, about to make his mark on American history? John Deere, that’s who! Who moved to Illinois, where farmers were struggling to plow through the thick, rich soil they called gumbo? Who tinkered and tweaked and tested until he invented a steel plow that sliced into the prairie easy as you please? Long before the first tractor, who changed farming forever? John Deere, that’s who! Beautiful illustrations—including spectacular landscapes—reflect the time period and bring John Deere's remarkable story to life.

Author : Kory Stamper
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 15,66 MB
Release : 2018-03-06
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 110197026X

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“We think of English as a fortress to be defended, but a better analogy is to think of English as a child. We love and nurture it into being, and once it gains gross motor skills, it starts going exactly where we don’t want it to go: it heads right for the goddamned electrical sockets.” With wit and irreverence, lexicographer Kory Stamper cracks open the obsessive world of dictionary writing, from the agonizing decisions about what to define and how to do it to the knotty questions of ever-changing word usage. Filled with fun facts—for example, the first documented usage of “OMG” was in a letter to Winston Churchill—and Stamper’s own stories from the linguistic front lines (including how she became America’s foremost “irregardless” apologist, despite loathing the word), Word by Word is an endlessly entertaining look at the wonderful complexities and eccentricities of the English language.