Sunday
Jan252009
Dr. Johnson's Dictionary
Sunday 25 January, 2009
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Read the dictionary. I dare you.
In celebration of the three hundredth anniversary of Johnson’s birth in 1709, a definition from the first edition of [Johnson's] dictionary will be posted each day for readers’ lexiconic delight, beginning on January 1, 2009. Words will be taken from the annotated proof copy of the first edition, extra-illustrated with Johnson’s and his helpers’ manuscript corrections, which is held in the collections of Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Read the dictionary. I dare you.
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