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Date Added: October 02, 2008 12:04:02 PM
A quarter-millennium after Dr Johnson published the first-ever English dictionary in 1755, "the world's first democratically compiled, multimedia online dictionary" has just been launched in Johnson's house in London's Gough Square. If you listened carefully, you could have heard the great lexicographer's ghost ripping off his periwig in a fury, and unloosing a fusillade of invective at the ...

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