Who was the author of the first English-language dictionary? It’s widely said to be Robert Cawdrey, whose little book A Table Alphabeticall appeared in 1604. Little is known of Cawdrey except that he ...
Robert Siegel talks with John Morse, president and publisher of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary. It was 200 years ago that Noah Webster published A Compendious Dictionary of the English Language.
His publication of a dictionary in 1755 earned him a degree from Oxford (Picture: CORBIS/ Getty) Samuel Johnson, the man who wrote the first comprehensive English dictionary, is honoured by today’s ...
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