Some new ‘daffynitions’

Poor Noah Webster would turn over in his grave if he saw the changes in the English language that would appear in his dictionary.

Born in 1758 in Connecticut, Webster, who graduated from Yale University in 1778 as a 19-year-old, was passionate about grammar, spelling and usage and is credited for publishing the first American dictionary for the English language.

Webster is synonymous with the dictionary, as his name remains on the Merriman-Webster Dictionary that first published nearly 200 hundred years ago.

While Webster had his ideas of definitions, our daffynitions are more apropos today.

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