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Feb. 12, 2021
Men made out of words
The creation of dictionaries has its own strange body of lore, far more exciting than one would think.
Richard Wirick
Partner
Risk Management and Insurance Litigation (RMIL) Practice Group at Haight, Brown & Bonesteel LLP (Haight).
The creation of dictionaries has its own strange body of lore, far more exciting than one would think. Samuel Johnson and his companion-biographer James Boswell pretty much covered the waterfront of Johnson's composition of his 18th Century dictionary. One hundred and seventy-three years before the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary, Johnson Johnson's dictionary was enormous, the cost of its production paper over 16 pounds, and a doorstop that the author himsel...
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