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Recalling the story of the first great lexicon of English, the author reveals how Samuel Johnson arduously assembled his eighteenth-century dictionary--a task that ultimately helped make English into a major European language.
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Defining the World, Henry Hitchings
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- 2005
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- Title
- Defining the World
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Henry Hitchings
- Publisher
- Macmillan
- Released
- 2005
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 0374113025
- ISBN13
- 9780374113025
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Historical Themes, True Stories, Biographies, History, British Literature, Languages, Linguistics, About Books
- Rating
- 4 out of 5
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- Recalling the story of the first great lexicon of English, the author reveals how Samuel Johnson arduously assembled his eighteenth-century dictionary--a task that ultimately helped make English into a major European language.