Noah Webster and the Invention of Immigration
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2008-03
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MIT Press
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Like all lexicographers, Noah Webster built his dictionaries on the works of others. But in the case of the verb to immigrate and its derivatives, he coined a new definition, one that has had a profound impact on how Americans conceive of the phenomenon of immigration.
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Shumsky, Neil Larry. "Noah Webster and the Invention of Immigration," New Eng. Quar. March 2008, Vol. 81, No. 1, Pages 126-135. doi:10.1162/tneq.2008.81.1.126