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English, 14.12.2020 21:30, takaylawynder
. . . yet it may gratify curiosity to inform it, that the English Dictionary was written with little assistance of the learned, and without any patronage of the great; not in the soft obscurities of retirement, or under the shelter of academick bowers, but amidst inconvenience and distraction, in sickness and in sorrow. –Preface to A Dictionary of the English Language, Samuel Johnson According to the passage, what distinguishes Johnson’s dictionary from others? It was the first dictionary to be produced by a group of scholars at a university. It was written almost single-handedly, with little financial or scholarly support. It was written by an author who was both curious and learned. It was the first dictionary to include definitions of simple, everyday words.
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