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Background By 1700, Italy and France both had national dictionaries that had taken their scholars decades to complete. The few English dictionaries of the time looked puny by comparison. So in 1746, Samuel Johnson—then a penniless, unknown writer—talked several booksellers into paying him to create a dictionary worthy of the English language. It took him nine years of painstaking work to define around 43,000 words, illustrated with some 114,000 quotations.
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