The house where Noah Webster compiled his first dictionary in 1806 is at Greenfield Village in Michigan. Upstairs, I looked at the examples of the hand written cards he used to carefully work out a definition from literature and science and other fields, with the knowledge that others would depend upon him for the closest he could get to accuracy. Not his personal bias if he could help it.
How sad to have his work corrupted and made into a short term PC travesty.
Next: violence is not harmful if for a good leftist cause. Conservative = purveyor of hate speech who should be punished for it./s
 'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, ' it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.'
'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.' 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.' |