2006-12-27 18:06:47 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Samuel Johnson is credited with creating the first English language dictionary.
2006-12-27 18:14:41 · answer #1 · answered by mk_matson 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you mean the monumental one? So the credit is to Dr Samuel Johnson (1709-1784), English poet, essayist, dramatist and pioneering lexicographer. He worked alone with some assistants at 17 Gough Square, Fleet Street, London (now a historic house you can visit) for six years to complete it. His literary potential/scholarship produced two large folio volumes entitled "A Dictionary of the English Language" and one of his friends, Dr Adams, observed casually that the forty-member French Academy took forty years to compile their Dictionary. Dr Johnson replied, "Sir, thus it is. This is the proportion. Let me see; forty times forty is sixteen hundred. As three to sixteen hundred, so is the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman."
2006-12-28 03:36:00 · answer #2 · answered by Arigato ne 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Webster
2006-12-28 02:15:32 · answer #3 · answered by nesmith52 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oxford publishers.
2006-12-28 02:50:36 · answer #4 · answered by Nitin T F1 fan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Which one?
2006-12-28 02:08:41 · answer #5 · answered by What, what, what?? 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We all did in a way! Do you mean Daniel Webster???
2006-12-28 02:16:21 · answer #6 · answered by ladybug_jane22 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
noone. whoever did it , he/she only compiled it. none can write a dictionary
2006-12-28 02:42:20 · answer #7 · answered by Antsan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
chuck norris did.
2006-12-28 02:09:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
some giant mushroom....GIANT MUSHY FRIEND!!!! lol i watch to much Avatar...
2006-12-28 02:11:31 · answer #9 · answered by tydygurl10 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Precise please
2006-12-28 02:56:25 · answer #10 · answered by patrick w 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋