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Lexicographer vs Websterism - What's the difference?

lexicographer | websterism |

As nouns the difference between lexicographer and websterism

is that lexicographer is one who writes or compiles a dictionary while websterism is (dated) an orthographic convention due to (1758-1843), american lexicographer and spelling reformer.

lexicographer

English

(wikipedia lexicographer)

Noun

(en noun)
  • one who writes or compiles a dictionary
  • * 1755 A writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words. — , lexicographer, in his seminal dictionary
  • * 1811 Pitt has furnish'd us a word or two / Which lexicographers declined to do. — , Hints from Horace
  • * 1860 The best lexicographer may well be content if his productions are received by the world with cold esteem. — , Biographies contributed to the Encyclopædia Britannica
  • * To the lexicographer, God is simply the word that comes next to go-cart -

    • Synonyms

    * dictionarian

    Related terms

    * lexicography * lexicon * lexicologist

    websterism

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dated) An orthographic convention due to (1758-1843), American lexicographer and spelling reformer.
    • The spelling ''theater'' for ''theatre'' is a Websterism .
  • * 1860 , The North American Review
    • 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 ...
  • * 1881 , Isaac Pitman, Pitman's Journal of Commercial Education
    • ...this improvement will no longer figure as an Americanism or a Websterism .