Founding Grammars (43 page)

Moss, Richard J.
Noah Webster.
Boston: Twayne, 1984.

Murray, Lindley.
English Exercises, Adapted to Murray's English Grammar
[1797]. York, England: Wilson & Sons, 1833.

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English Grammar, Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners.
[1824]. Delmar, NY: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1981.

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English Grammar, Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners.
York, England: Wilson, Spence & Mawman, 1795.

Murray, Lindley.
Memoirs.
With a preface and a continuation of the memoirs by Elizabeth Frank. New York: Samuel Wood, 1827.

Murray, Sarah E.
In the Olden Time: A Short History of the Descendants of John Murray the Good.
New York: Stettiner, Lambert & Co., 1894.

Nye, Russel Blaine.
Society and Culture in America, 1830–1860.
New York: Harper & Row, 1974.

Osterweis, Rollin G.
Three Centuries of New Haven, 1638–1938.
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1953.

Parton, James.
Life of Andrew Jackson.
3 vols. New York: Mason Brothers, 1888.

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The Life of Horace Greeley, Editor of the New York Tribune.
New York: Mason Brothers, 1855.

Pound, Louise. “The American Dialect Society: A Historical Sketch.”
Publication of the American Dialect Society
no. 17, April 1952, 3–28.

Read, Allen Walker. “American Projects for an Academy to Regulate Speech.”
PMLA
51 (December 1936): 1141–79.

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. “Could Andrew Jackson Spell?”
American Speech
38 (October 1963): 188–95.

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. “The Motivation of Lindley Murray's Grammatical Work.”
Journal of English and Germanic Philology
38 (1939): 525–39.

Reed, Alonzo, and Brainerd Kellogg.
Higher Lessons in English.
New York: Clark & Maynard, 1878. Reynolds, David S.
Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson.
New York: HarperCollins, 2008.

Rush, Benjamin. “Thoughts upon Female Education” [1787]. In
Essays, Literary, Moral, and Philosophical.
Philadelphia: Thomas and William Bradford, 1806.

Scharf, John Thomas.
A History of Baltimore, City and County.
Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1881.

Schweiger, Beth Barton. “A Social History of English Grammar in the Early United States.”
Journal of the Early Republic
30 (Winter 2010): 533–55.

Scripps, John Locke.
Life of Abraham Lincoln
[1860]. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1961.

Shackford, James Atkins.
David Crockett: The Man and the Legend.
Edited by John B. Shackford. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1986.

Skinner, David.
The Story of Ain't: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published.
New York: Harper, 2012.

Sledd, James, and Wilma R. Ebbitt.
Dictionaries and
That
Dictionary: A Casebook on the Aims of Lexicographers and the Targets of Reviewers.
Chicago: Scott, Foresman, 1962.

Strunk, William, Jr.
The Elements of Style.
Geneva, NY: Press of W.P. Humphrey, 1918. Online edition,
www.bartleby.com/141/
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The Elements of Style.
With revisions, an introduction and a new chapter on writing by E. B. White. New York: Macmillan, 1959.

Swinton, William.
New Language Lessons: Elementary Grammar and Composition
[1877]. New York: Harper & Bros., 1885.

Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Ingrid.
The Bishop's Grammar: Robert Lowth and the Rise of Prescriptivism in English.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.

Trumbull, J. Hammond.
The Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633–1884.
2 vols. Boston: Edward L. Osgood, 1886.

Walker, David.
David Walker's Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World
[1829]. Edited and with a new introduction and annotations by Peter P. Hinks. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000.

Webster, Noah.
The American Spelling Book
[1831]. New York: Teacher's College, Columbia University, 1962.

Webster, Noah.
A Dictionary of the English Language
[1828]. 2 vols. London: Black, Young, and Young, 1832.

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Dissertations on the English Language.
Boston: Isaiah Thomas & Co., 1789.

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A Grammatical Institute of the English Language, Part II.
Hartford: Hudson & Goodwin, 1784.

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A Grammatical Institute of the English Language, Part II.
6th ed. [1800]. Delmar, NY: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1980.

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A Philosophical and Practical Grammar of the English Language
. New Haven: Oliver Steele & Co., 1807.

White, E. B. “Letter from the East.”
New Yorker,
July 27, 1957, 35–36, 42–44.

White, Richard Grant.
Every-Day English.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1880.

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Words and Their Uses, Past and Present
[1870]. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1881.

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. “Words and Their Uses: The Author's Humble Apology for Having Written His Book.”
Galaxy,
June 1871, 786–800.

Whitney, William Dwight.
Essentials of English Grammar
[1877]. Delmar, NY: Scholars' Facsimiles & Reprints, 1988.

“William Bentley Fowle.”
American Journal of Education
10 (June 1861): 597–610.

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New-England Historical and Genealogical Register and Antiquarian Journal,
April 1869, 109–118.

Williams, Talcott. “Lincoln the Reader.”
American Review of Reviews,
February 1920, 193–96.

Williamson, Samuel H. “Seven Ways to Compute the Relative Value of a U.S. Dollar Amount, 1774 to Present.” MeasuringWorth.
http://www.measuringworth.com/uscompare/
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Wilson, Douglas L. “What Jefferson and Lincoln Read.”
Atlantic,
January 1991, 51–57, 60–62.

Woods, William F. “The Evolution of Nineteenth-Century Grammar Teaching.”
Rhetoric Review
5 (Autumn 1986): 4–20.

“Words and Their Uses,” Parts I–X.
College Courant,
November 19, 1870–January 28, 1871.

 

Index

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a

A.B.C. school

Academy of Natural Sciences

Academy of Philadelphia

accent, American

accusative.
See also
objective case

ACS.
See
American Colonization Society

active voice

Adams, John

Adams, John Quincy

Ade, George

adjectives

adverbs

African Americans.
See also
free blacks

agent

ain't

Allison, Patrick

America

American Academy of Language

American Colonization Society (ACS)

American Dialect Society

American Dictionary of the English Language
(Webster, Noah)

abridgment of

for English market

price and copies

American Ethnological Society

American Etiquette and Rules of Politeness

American Heritage Dictionary

American language

accent

British language compared to

dialects

idiom

uniform national language

American Philological Association

American Spelling Book
(Webster, Noah)

Americanisms

The American Magazine

The American Minerva

The American Spelling Book
(Webster, Noah)

Amherst College

among,
with
whom

an

The Analysts Journal

Analytical Outlines of the English Language
(Lewis)

Anglo-Saxon (Old English)

unvarnished

verbs

words from

aphorisms

An Appeal to Coloured Citizens of the World
(Walker, D.)

Appleton, Nathaniel

Aristotle

Arnold, Benedict

Arrant Pedantry
blog

articles, before names

as

as follows

like/as

Associated Press

Atheneaum

Atlantic

Atlas and Argus

attributes

Aurora

Ayres, Alfred

Barlow, Joel

be. See to be

Belles-Lettres Society

between you and I

Bible

examples from

King James Bible

reading

as source

Webster's Bible, Common Version

Wycliffe's translation of

Bierce, Ambrose

Bingham, Caleb

biweekly

blab schools

blackboards

Blackstone, William

Blackwood's

Blair, Francis P.

blog posts

Bloom, Ryan

Book Society

Boston Latin School

Boston Palladium

Bradford, William

A Brief History of Epidemic and Pestilential Diseases
(Webster, Noah)

British language

Brown, Goold

Buckminster, Joseph

Bulley, Michael

Bullions, Peter

bully pulpit

Burr, Aaron

Burr, Theodosia

Bush, Sarah

canebrake, tales from

Cardell, William

Carnegie, Andrew

carpetbaggers

case.
See also
nominative case

dative

definition of

genitive

noun

objective

vocative

Case, Jack

casual speech

Channing, William Ellery

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Chicago Daily News

Chilton, Thomas

Chronicle of Higher Education

Clark, Stephen Watkins

Cobb, Lyman

Coleridge, Samuel

College Courant

colloquial style

commands

Commentaries on the Law of England
(Blackstone)

Common School Grammar
(Fowle)

common schools

comparative linguistics

comparisons

comparatives

phrases

subject of missing verb in

A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language
(Webster, Noah)

composition

conjunctions

connectives

Constitution

Converse, Sherman

Copperud, Roy H.

copyright laws

corduroy roads

Cornish, Samuel

corporal punishment

country words and phrases

A Critical Review of the Orthography of Dr. Webster's Series of Books for Systematick Instruction in the English Language
(Cobb)

The Critic

Crockett, David

Daily Whig

dame school

Darwin, Charles

dative case

Davy Crockett's Almanack

Day, Benjamin

deprecate, depreciate

descriptive linguists

Dialect Notes

The Dial

diary clubs

Dickens, Charles

Dictionary of American Regional English

Dictionary of the English Language
(Johnson)

different than, different from

Dilworth, Thomas

criticism of

influence of

A New Guide to the English Tongue

practice verses

dime novels

direct objects

Dissertations on the English Language
(Webster, Noah)

Dodson, Stephen

double negatives

ban on

examples of

Douglas, Stephen

Dracula
(Stoker)

dress

drunk

due to

Editor & Publisher

Elements of English Grammar
(Cardell)

Elements of Useful Knowledge
(Webster, Noah)

The Elements of Style
(Strunk)

elevated style

English Grammar, Adapted to the Different Classes of Learners
(Murray, L.)

abridged version of

dominance of

improvement on

memorization of

subtitle of

English Grammar in Familiar Lectures
(Kirkham)

English language.
See also
Anglo-Saxon

bad

command of

family of

good

Latin compared to

Webster, Noah, lectures on

English market

errors, grammar

Essentials of English Grammar
(Whitney, W.)

etiquette books

etymology.
See also
parts of speech

euphemisms

Evans, Bergen

Evening Post

everybody

plural pronouns with

they
with