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Forging a National Language
 

Spelling as a Badge of Identity
 

  • The new spelling was now a badge of being American

 

  • Webster turned a language into a national institution

 

  • A standard language was needed to symbolize status, stability, and political unity of a new nation
 

  • Webster helped the new nation to develop a sense of linguistic identity by giving it a spelling-book, a dictionary, and a grammar

 

  • The term Americanism was first used in 1781

 

  • Congress used the phrase American language in 1802

 
 

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FORGING A NATIONAL LANGUAGE

  Noah Webster (1758-1843)

  Language as a Band of National Union

  The New Spelling System

  Spelling as a Badge of Identity

  Webster's American Dictionary

  US-British Cultural Continuity

MODERN ENGLISH

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  Humour & Pathos in Shakespeare

  Biblical Phrases Test

  British vs. American English

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