On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, David's Mailing-list and Spam Receiver wrote: > A lot of people have been asking about the 1828. What's different/better > about it than the 1913 which seems to be a standard among dictionaries?
The 1828 edition was "written" by Webster himself. I put written in quotes because dictionary writers tend to borrow a lot of their definitions from others, but he did at least write down everything himself. The 1913 edition is more of a corporate production. The reason people seem to think the 1828 is better is because they believe it is more Christian, despite exhibiting in its definitions many of Webster's unchristian religious and racial prejudices. (Which is not to say that we wouldn't publish it nonetheless if we had a copy.) --Chris _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel
