Websterism
nounEtymology From Webster + -ism.
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Dated An orthographic convention due to Noah Webster (1758-1843), American lexicographer and spelling reformer.
- Again, the spelling of such words as "center" and "traveler" is not an Americanism, though to be found in a few American books, but a Websterism […]1860, The North American Review:
- […] this improvement will no longer figure as an Americanism or a Websterism.1881, Isaac Pitman, Pitman's Journal of Commercial Education: