Dissertation on the English Language

Dissertation on the English Language was a book written by American lexicographer Noah Webster in 1789. The book followed Webster's 1783 work Spelling Book and aimed to differentiate American English from British English.^[1] In the book, Webster commented that "our honor requires us to have a system of our own, in language as well as government. Great Britain ... should no longer be our standard; for the taste of her writers is already corrupted, and her language on the decline."^[2] This dissertation was dedicated to Benjamin Franklin.

Footnotes

^ Tottie (2002), p. 8.
^ Tottie (2002), p. 9.

References

Tottie, Gunnel (2002), An Introduction to American English, Blackwell Publishing, ISBN 978-0-631-19792-8

External links

Graduate Theses And Dissertations In English As A Second Language, 1976 77 by Stephen Cooper

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[tottie8-1] Tottie (2002), p. 8.

[tottie9-2] Tottie (2002), p. 9.

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