In 1828, Noah Webster published “An American Dictionary to the English Language,” the first unabridged dictionary of American English. The two-volume lexicon, complete with more than 70,000 entries, took more than 15 years to write.
The thinking behind the dictionary has come leaps and bounds since Webster’s tome was first published, Word Freak author Stefan Fatsis told HuffPost Live’s Nancy Redd.
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