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Johnson's Dictionary interesting even to those forWritten virtually single handedly over a seven year period by a revered dean of English letters, Johnsons Dictionary first appeared in 1755. A remarkable monument to the vigor and variety of our language and to the genius of its author, it served as the standard dictionary for more than 150 years and formed the basis for all subsequent English dictionaries. This modern version reduces the original 2,300 pages of definitions and literary examples to a