Abstract

Notes on the New Edition of Webster's Dictionary

This article focuses on the new edition of Webster's Dictionary. thoughts which might otherwise fail to attract notice. The philological material the author employ has been collected for other purposes than those of invidious or even suggestive criticism, and he send it forth in a desultory and in artificial form because he have neither the leisure nor the literary facilities which would be required to put it into a more effective and permanent shape. The letter A may be called emphatically a Latin letter, for the proportion of words beginning with that vowel which are borrowed from Latin, either directly or through the Romance dialects, is almost tenfold as great as that of the words derived from any other source.