Today’s Google doodle celebrates the British writer, Samuel Johnson, on his 308th birthday. A poet, essayist, biographer and critic, Johnson was a prolific writer, but he is often best known for his ...

Modern dictionaries have a longer masthead than the average magazine; my copy of Webster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary lists 25 editors. But the first—and still, by some measures, the ...

Today would have been dictionary pioneer Samuel Johnson's 308th birthday and to honor his important innovations, Google created an animated Google Doodle just for him. 1. He authored “A Dictionary of ...

James Boswell is a hard act to follow. His Life of Johnson, written at close range after more hours in pubs and miles of travel with his eccentric subject than most could have withstood, is detailed, ...

It took roughly eight years for Samuel Johnson and his staff of six helpers to complete the Dictionary of the English Language, published on April 15, 1755. The work soon established itself as one of ...

Google’s Doodle today commemorates the birthday of the compiler of the first authoritative English dictionary - Samuel Johnson, who was born 308 years ago today in Lichfield, Staffordshire. Already a ...

Back in late 18th-century London, Samuel Johnson was known for many things. He was an accomplished poet, playwright, and essayist. He was a literary critic and author of A Dictionary of the English ...

Before the Oxford English Dictionary was the go-to resource for our word-based needs, there was A Dictionary of the English Language. Its author, Samuel Johnson, is being honored by Google on Monday ...

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