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Noah Webster: Lexicographer’s business

“A  lexicographer’s business is solely to collect, arrange, and define the words that usage presents to his hands. He has no right to proscribe words; he is to present them as they are.” 

—-Noah Webster, lexicographer (16 Oct 1758-1843). 


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