Whose 19th century dictionary standardised US English?
Century Dictionary Century Dictionary The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia is one of the largest encyclopedic dictionaries of the English language. The first edition was published from 1889 to 1891 by The Century Company of New York, in six, eight, or ten volume versions (originally issued in 24 fascicles) in 7,046 pages with some 10,000 wood-engraved illustrations. It was edited by Sanskrit scholar and linguist William Dwight Whitney, with Benjamin Eli Smith's assistance. It was a great expansion of the smaller "Imperial Dictionary of the English Language", which in turn had been based on the 1841 edition of Noah Webster's "American Dictionary". After
Century Dictionary source for the makers of many later dictionaries, including editors of the "Oxford English Dictionary", who cited it over 2,000 times in the first edition. In 1913, Stewart Archer Steger from the University of Virginia published his Ph.D. dissertation "American Dictionaries" and devoted a 14-page Chapter VI to "Century Dictionary". He concluded the chapter with these words: "Altogether, "The Century Dictionary" far surpasses anything in American lexicography". The works are out of copyright, and efforts have been made to digitize the volumes. 1889–91 Century Dictionary The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia is one of the largest encyclopedic dictionaries of the English