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Review: Recent revision of "A Dictionary of the English Language" by Samuel Johnson

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From: NPR Special
Date: 20030924
Author:MIKE SHUSTER

MIKE SHUSTER
NPR Special
09-24-2003
Review: Recent revision of "A Dictionary of the English Language" by Samuel Johnson

Host: MIKE SHUSTER
Time: 4:00-5:00 PM

MIKE SHUSTER, host:

It's Wednesday, and it's time for our regular look at books. Today, it's dictionaries. When you open up most modern dictionaries you usually find that they've been edited by dozens of people. But book reviewer Adam Kirsch says a new edition of one of our language's first dictionaries shows what one remarkable editor can do on his own.

ADAM KIRSCH reporting:

When it was published in 1755, "A Dictionary of the English ...

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