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Samuel Johnson: words for a new nation MEANWHILE
From: International Herald Tribune
Date: 20050705
Author:Jack Lynch
Jack Lynch
International Herald Tribune
07-05-2005
As the United States celebrated one anniversary on Monday, the English language celebrated another. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language was published 250 years ago. And it is fair to say that the book and the nation have grown up together, and that the one can help us understand the other even today. Johnson may seem an unlikely guide to America's history; early Americans had what can be charitably described as a love-hate relationship with him. He lived from 1709 to 1784, during which time America transformed itself from a ...
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