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Webster's 'American Dictionary of the English Language' was published in 1828, and of course appeared at once in England, where successive re-editing has as yet kept it in the highest place as a practical Dictionary. "The acceptance of an American Dictionary in England has itself had immense effect in keeping up the community of speech, to break which would be a grievous harm, not to English-speaking nations alone, but to mankind. The result of this has been that the common dictionary must suit both sides of the Atlantic. "Every dictionary compiler, by the mere fact of his selection and treatment of words, is able to exalt some and degrade others, thus gaining a practical influence over the language he deals with. Fully conscious of this influence, Webster used it with intent in his dictionary. Thus it was his decision as a zealous purist that brought in the revived older spelling, traveler, worshiped, etc., and substituted the Latin favor, honor, for the English favour, honour, etc., while for the sake of uniformity, the old but unusual forms, center, niter, are given precedence over centre, nitre, etc. These peculiarities, accepted by the American public, often enable the reader to distinguish at a glance an American from an English book. "The good average business-like character of Webster's Dictionary, both in style and matter, made it as distinctly suited as Johnson's was dis .tinctly unsuited to be expanded and re-edited by other hands. Professor Goodrich's edition of 1847 is not much more than enlarged and amended, but other revisions since have so much novelty of plan as to be described as distinct works. 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