Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language
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Samuel Johnson sets out why he undertook a dictionary of English and what the work asked of him. He begins with the thankless place of the dictionary maker, who can hope only to escape blame, then describes a language he found plentiful but without order, with spelling unsettled and no agreed test of purity.
His method was to read the writers of the language, note the words and phrases worth recording, and shape the notes into a system. The Dictionary itself appeared in 1755.
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- Author
- Samuel Johnson
- Reading time
- About 40 minutes
- Pages
- 23
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Educational
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