Talk:A Dictionary of the English Language
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[edit] Math error?
6,000 copies is not 20 copies a year for 30 years - that would only be 600.
[edit] Public domain source?
Is there a PD version of this dictionary? -- Toytoy 19:04, Feb 10, 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Black Adder
I think if would be appropriate to mention that the writing of the dictionary was satirized in Rowan Atkinson's Black Adder series for the BBC, where the manuscript was almost burned.
[edit] Olde?
In The Johnson Dictionary Project, I searched for 'olde' (which Wikipedia gives as an example of Johnson's conservative spelling) and found nothing, but when I searched for 'old' I found many entries. Shouldn't we provide an example that's actually in the dictionary? --Berserk798 02:03, 15 April 2006 (UTC)
[edit] 4th edition publication date?
I thought it was 1773 not 1783?
[edit] Fart
"To break wind behind."
"As when we a gun discharge, Although the bore be ni'er so large."
"Before the flame from muzzle bust. Just as the breech it flashes first; So from my lord his passion broke, He farted first, and then he spoke."
from Swift (I think) and quoted by Johnson - please check!Osborne 08:35, 27 June 2007 (UTC)
No mention of his application to Lord Chesterfield (for patronage), his rebuff, and his angry letter in reply to the Lord's favorable review when the dictionary was finally completed and published!? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.212.92.191 (talk) 01:48, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
No mention of Johnson's humble application to Lord Chesterfield (for patronage, for the composition of dictionary), his rebuff, and his famous letter of rebuke to Chesterfield when the lord praised the dictionary in a review after it's completion and publication (without patronage and under hardship)!? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.212.92.191 (talk) 03:46, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
No mention of Johnson's humble application to Lord Chesterfield (for patronage, for the monumental effort to produce the dictionary), his rebuff, and his famous letter of rebuke to Chesterfield when the lord praised the dictionary in a review after it's completion and publication (without patronage and under considerable hardship)!? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.212.92.191 (talk) 14:26, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Johnson vs. Lord Chesterfield
No mention of Johnson's humble application to Lord Chesterfield (for patronage, for the monumental effort to produce the dictionary), his rebuff, and his famous letter of rebuke to Chesterfield when the lord praised the dictionary in a review after it's completion and publication (without patronage and under considerable hardship)!? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.212.92.191 (talk) 14:32, 15 April 2008 (UTC)
[edit] Benjamin Martin
Benjamin Martin's Lingua Britannica Reformata (1749) —Preceding unsigned comment added by BethEllen (talk • contribs) 22:47, 24 April 2008 (UTC) The link to Benjamin Martin is to Benjamin F. Martin, born in 1877, —Preceding unsigned comment added by BethEllen (talk • contribs) 22:39, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
