NOAH Webster is called the “Father of American Scholarship and Education.” His name is synonymous with the textbook on American language – the dictionary. He was born on Oct. 16, 1758, in ...

“The American Heritage Children’s Dictionary, Webster’s Dictionary for Students and Merriam-Webster’s Elementary Dictionary are among more than 2,800 books that have been pulled from ...

More than two centuries after Noah Webster published the first American dictionary, ... Mass.-based publisher announced the forthcoming release of two titles that will launch Merriam-Webster Kids.

Webster, who died in 1843 at 86, became synonymous with the dictionary but less well known over time and often confused with Daniel Webster, a secretary of state and great orator in the 19th century.

On the first floor are business offices and company artifacts. A glass case down an echoey hallway contains Noah Webster’s first lexicographic effort, A Compendious Dictionary of the English ...

The American Heritage Children’s Dictionary, Webster’s Dictionary for Students, and Merriam-Webster’s Elementary Dictionary are just some of the 2,800 books that have been taken off the ...

A Merriam-Webster spokesperson told NPR that "irregardless" has appeared in the pages of its Unabridged dictionary edition since 1934, and, as NPR reported, other dictionaries -- including ...