Here is another great video from Merriam-Webster’s Ask The Editor feature on YouTube:
So Noah Webster would have spelled soup “soop” and tongue “tung.” That makes sense. But it also make both words look kind of gross.
To find out more about the guy who wrote An American Dictionary of the English Language, read biography of Noah Webster and follow the links.
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