Noah Webster Didn’t Just Create A Dictionary — He Wanted To Establish One American National Language

Emphasis on the one. “For Webster, new nationhood provided unique opportunities for language reform — opportunities that would fade quickly, he warns, if not grabbed before America’s language, like Britain’s, deteriorated owing to homegrown ‘corruptions’ such as regional dialects, affectation, nostalgia for English manners and customs, class divisions, and innumerable other evils.” – The Atlantic