From: utzoo!decvax!cca!hplabs!menlo70!nsc!miker@sri-unix
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Title: Noah Webster
Article-I.D.: nsc.195
Posted: Fri Jul 16 13:14:50 1982
Received: Sun Jul 18 02:17:27 1982

Aldon Hunes' story about Noah Webster's first dictionary defining
oats as fit only for horses and Scotsmen is attributed to the wrong
person.  The actual Scotophobe was Dr. Samuel Johnson.