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A large work is difficult because it is large’, wrote Samuel Johnson, one of the most famous of dictionary-makers, in the Preface to his Dictionary of the English Language which he published in 1755. Writing a Very Short Introduction to dictionaries prompts a rather different conclusion–that ‘A very short book is very difficult because it is particularly short’. Even Johnson found he could not include all that he had originally intended (‘such...
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