Samuel Johnson's dictionary of 1755 greatly favoured Norman-influenced spellings such as centre and colour ; on the other hand, Noah Webster's first guide to American spelling, published in 1783, preferred spellings like center and the Latinate color.

Though he never attended college, Webster's father was intellectually curious and prized education ; his mother spent long hours teaching Noah and his siblings spelling, mathematics and music.

The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster's Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture ( 2011 )

This meaning was widely adopted early in the history of the United States, including in Noah Webster's dictionary of 1828.

* Noah Webster ( 1758-1843 ), an American known for creating Webster's Dictionary

Webster's Dictionary refers to the line of dictionaries first developed by Noah Webster in the early 19th century, and also to numerous unrelated dictionaries that added Webster's name just to share his prestige.

Noah Webster's assistant, and later chief competitor, Joseph Emerson Worcester, and Webster's son-in-law Chauncey A. Goodrich, published an abridgment of Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language in 1829, with the same number of words and Webster's full definitions, but without the literary references.

Worcester and Goodrich's abridgment of Noah Webster's 1841 ( 1844 ) edition was printed, this time by Harper and Brothers of New York City, in 1844, with added words as an appendix.

It was the first edition to largely overhaul Noah Webster's work, and the first to be known as the Unabridged.

Some of these were unauthorized reprints of Noah Webster's work ; some were revisions of his work.

One such revision was Webster's Imperial Dictionary, based on John Ogilvie's The Imperial Dictionary of the English Language, itself an expansion of Noah Webster's American Dictionary.

In 1917, a US court ruled that Webster's entered the public domain in 1834 when Noah Webster's 1806 dictionary's copyright lapsed.

However, Merriam-Webster revisionists find solid ground in Noah Webster's concept of the English language as an ever-changing tapestry.

Among larger dictionaries during this period was ( non-Merriam ) Webster's Universal Dictionary ( also published as Webster's Twentieth Century Dictionary ) which traced its roots to Noah Webster and called itself " unabridged ", but had less than half the vocabulary and paled in scholarship against the Merriam editions.

The main commercial street, Campbell Avenue, is named for British Adjutant William Campbell, at the time an ensign in the Third Guards, who rescued the Reverend Noah Williston, the local Congregational minister and outspoken revolutionary, from being bayoneted by British and Hessian troopers, after he broke his leg trying to escape his captors.

In the 2011 novel Donations to Clarity by Noah Baird ( Published by Second Wind Publishing ), one of the main characters — the town's sheriff — is an Elvis impersonator.

While Kaiba stops Gozaburo, a reformed Noah reprograms on of the satellites to attack the main computer database and helps Yugi and his friends escape.

Kariba has three main suburbs: Mahombekombe, the older poorer lakeshore high density suburb, Nyamhunga the newer high density suburb and Kariba Heights, the wealthier inland suburb and home to the Operation Noah monument.

The main story is suspended at one point to tell the stories of Noah and Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac.

When the Omega Lock and Planet Keys reunited with him, all of his Spark becomes restored to him, making him strong again, and used the Ark's ( called Noah in Galaxy Force ) main cannon to destroy the black hole.

The new series featured the main muppets from " Sippuray Sumsum " – Noah and Brosh, along with the hosts Tzahi ( Dror Keren ) and Aibtism ( Hind Ayub ), many other actors, and two new muppets – Abigil and Mahboub.

* Phantasy Star II: At the end of the game, the main group of characters are gathered in a spaceship called " Noah " after they defeat the final boss, a computer system named " Mother Brain " that had been keeping the citizens of the Algo star system in a state of luxuriant laziness.

" In the main opening titles, his new SIA boss, Noah Bain, uses the catch phrase, " Oh, look, Al, I'm not asking you to spy.

His only major film credit to date is a small part – credited as " angry promoter " – in the 2000 Cameron Crowe film, Almost Famous, first seen fighting with Noah Taylor's character, then yelling at and chasing after the main characters as they drive away on a bus.

As the title suggests, the central story follows the standard romantic plotline usually known as " boy meets girl, boy loses girl, boy gets girl " except that the main characters are both boys, the narrator Paul and newcomer Noah.

The torture session is interrupted when his SMERSH masters, led by the film's main villain, Dr. Noah, shoot him dead.

Jonathan is also known for his main role as Sweetness in the 2005 film, Roll Bounce, and as Noah Cruise in the 2006 basketball film, Crossover.

The style gained some fame in the 21st century as the identifying feature of one of the main characters in the critically acclaimed american science fiction television show Heroes ( the character was identified as Noah Bennet in the first season finale but uptil that point was known as ' Horn Rimmed Glasses ' or ' HRG ').

Joseph Emerson Worcester ( August 24, 1784 – October 27, 1865 ) was an American lexicographer who was the chief competitor to Noah Webster of Webster's Dictionary in the mid-nineteenth-century.

He continued work in Noah as a tag team competitor again to critical acclaim, winning the GHC Tag Team Championship with Akitoshi Saito.

Flavius and the Book of Jubilees described the continents as the lands given by Noah to his three sons ; Europe was defined as stretching from the Pillars of Hercules at the Strait of Gibraltar, separating it from North Africa, to the Don, separating it from Asia.

In the 1976 article " Computer Power and Human Reason ," an excerpt of which is included in The New Media Reader edited by Noah Wardrip-Fruin and Nick Montfort, Weizenbaum notes how quickly and deeply people became emotionally involved with the computer program, taking offence when he asked to view the transcripts, saying it was an invasion of their privacy, even asking him to leave the room while they were working with the DOCTOR script.

It said the Fathers saw foreshadowings of Mary's " wondrous abundance of divine gifts and original innocence " " in that ark of Noah, which was built by divine command and escaped entirely safe and sound from the common shipwreck of the whole world ; in the ladder which Jacob saw reaching from the earth to heaven, by whose rungs the angels of God ascended and descended, and on whose top the Lord himself leaned ; in that bush which Moses saw in the holy place burning on all sides, which was not consumed or injured in any way but grew green and blossomed beautifully ; in that impregnable tower before the enemy, from which hung a thousand bucklers and all the armor of the strong ; in that garden enclosed on all sides, which cannot be violated or corrupted by any deceitful plots ; in that resplendent city of God, which has its foundations on the holy mountains ; in that most august temple of God, which, radiant with divine splendours, is full of the glory of God ; and in very many other biblical types of this kind.

Another American admirer was lexicographer Noah Webster.

As Secretary of State, Monroe dismissed Mordecai Manuel Noah in 1815 from his post as consul to Tunis because he was Jewish.

Genesis 5: 32 states that Noah had three sons when he was five hundred years old.

If Noah was six hundred years old ( Genesis 7: 13 ), then Shem was ninety-eight years old at the Flood.

Later rabbinical legends made Og a survivor of the flood, suggesting the he had sat on the Ark and was fed by Noah.

Noah Webster, Jr. ( October 16, 1758 – May 28, 1843 ), was a lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author.

His father, Noah Sr. ( 1722 – 1813 ), was a descendant of Connecticut Governor John Webster ; his mother Mercy ( née Steele ; 1727 – 1794 ) was a descendant of Governor William Bradford of Plymouth Colony.

Politician Daniel Webster was Noah Webster ’ s cousin.

The first major statutory revision of U. S. copyright law, the 1831 Act was a result of intensive lobbying by Noah Webster and his agents in Congress.

Spellings in American English have been highly influenced by lexicographers like Noah Webster, who sought to create a standardized form of English that was independent of British English.

Noah (; or Noé, Noach ; ; ; ) was the tenth and last of the antediluvian Patriarchs.

Noah was the tenth of the pre-Flood Patriarchs.

In his six hundredth year God, saddened at the wickedness of mankind, sent a great deluge to destroy all life, but because Noah was " righteous in his generation " God instructed him to build an ark and save a remnant of life.

After this, Noah became an Husbandman, " the first tiller of the soil ", and he planted a vineyard: and he drank of the wine, and was drunken ; and was uncovered within his tent.

Commentators, as early as the Classical era, on have excused Noah ’ s excessive drinking because he was considered to be the first wine drinker, the first person to discover the soothing, consoling, and enlivening effects of wine.

In Jewish tradition, Rabbis blame Satan for saturating the vine with intoxicating properties from the blood of certain animals, thus Noah behaved not knowing what he was doing.

The description of Noah as " righteous in his generation " implied to some that his perfection was only relative: In his generation of wicked people, he could be considered righteous, but in the generation of a tzadik like Abraham, he would not be considered so righteous.