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| Year: | 1828 | ||||
| Short description: | Webster publishes "An American Dictionary of the English Language". | ||||
| Medium description: | Two volumes, c. 70,000 words (Crystal, 2004) All the words spelled ending in -our in Webster's previous publications now fixed as -or (Crystal, 2012) | ||||
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- Baugh, A. C. & Cable, T. (1993). A History of the English Language 4th edition. : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group [p.360]
- Howatt, A. P. R. (1984). A History of English Language Teaching. Oxford: Oxford University Press [p.115]
- Bejoint, H. (2000). Modern Lexicography: An Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press [p.44]
- Fennell, B. A. (2005). A History of English: A Sociolinguistic Approach. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. [p.221]
- Crystal, D. (1997). The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language: Second Edition. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press [p.109]
- Monaghan, J. (1991) The Textbook as a Commercial Enterprise: The Involvement of Noah Webster and William Holmes McGuffey in the Promotion of. Paradigm, Vol 1 No. 6 pp.- [p.0]
- Burchfield, R. (2002). The English Language. New York: Oxford University Press [p.92]
- Tottie, G. (2005). An Introduction to American English. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. [p.9]
- Crystal, David (2005). The Stories of English. London: Penguin [p.420]
- Crystal, David (1988). The English Language. London: Penguin [p.230]
- Piercy, Joseph (2012). The Story of English: How an Obscure Dialect Became the World's Most-Spoken Language. London: Michael O'Mara Books Limited [p.159]
- Crystal, David (2012). Spell It Out: The Singular Story of English Spelling. London: Profile Books Ltd [p.198]