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Beyond information.(Education)(J.J. Spigelman, Chief Justice of New South Wales)(Transcript)
FOR THOSE OF US who make a living from words, today is a quite momentous anniversary. It was on this day precisely 250 years ago, April 15, 1755, that there was published in London the first edition of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary. Perhaps only after the King James Bible and the works of Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson's contribution, most significantly in his Dictionary, has had the most profound influence on the vitality of this extraordinary language of which we are the lucky inheritors.
Johnson compiled his Dictionary--with its 42,773 entries and 114,000 quotations--in eight years and virtually single-handedly. In contrast the Dictionnaire of the Academie ...
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