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Article discusses the history of English dictionaries over a five-hundred-year period. Includes selections from Samuel Johnson's dictionary of 1755 and the Oxford English Dictionary. With useful comments about the origins of words, changes in the meanings of words over time, odd spellings, and the like. L.11-12.1a Gram/Usage changes
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