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4 days ago · The first edition of An American Dictionary of the English Language was published in two volumes in 1828, when Webster was 70 years old.
5 days ago · The First Edition of the OED was finished in 1928. Five years later, a supplement to the dictionary was published. Because English is a living language, the dictionary requires constant revision in order to remain current and accurate.
3 days ago · The Dictionary People: The unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary by Sarah Ogilvie ‘It was in a hidden corner of the Oxford University Press basement, where the Dictionary’s archive is stored, that I opened a dusty box and came across a small black book tied with cream ribbon.’
1 day ago · In 1755 Samuel Johnson published his A Dictionary of the English Language, which introduced standard spellings of words and usage norms. In 1828, Noah Webster published the American Dictionary of the English language to try to establish a norm for speaking and writing American English that was independent of the British standard.
2 days ago · A "British standard" began to emerge following the 1755 publication of Samuel Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language, and an "American standard" started following the work of Noah Webster and, in particular, his An American Dictionary of the English Language, first published in 1828.
4 days ago · The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past.
2 days ago · In 2010, Klingon became the first invented language to do what? Is it: a) have its own dictionary?, b) have an opera written? or, c) be recognised as an official language by the United Nations?
