Happy Birthday to American Style Dictionaries — and some great dictionary resources @ NYLI

Before Webster became the byword for dictionary, there was Daniel Webster — New England orator, lawyer, politician — and on April 14, 1828 — the first publisher of the first American Dictionary of the English Language.

And Dictionaries certainly have proliferated — and The New York Law Institute has you covered for…

Language is a living entity and NYLI’s collection documents that reality: our Reference Collection’s hundred plus years of coverage (1911-2020s) proves that words have been created, gone defunct and changed over the years….

And, for the ultimate dictionary experience, remote access to the OED is available to NYLI members…

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