Adam Willis Wagnalls
American publisher
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Adam Willis Wagnalls was an American publisher who, with Isaac Kauffman Funk, founded the publishing house I.K. Funk & Company in 1877, later known as Funk & Wagnalls Company. The firm became most famous for its dictionaries, particularly A Standard Dictionary of the English Language, first published in 1893. These dictionaries were noted for prioritizing current usage and simplified spellings. Wagnalls was also involved in religious journalism and was a proponent of spelling reform.12
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