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The Invention of the Modern Dictionary

Jun 1, 2022
33:40
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Introduction
00:00 • 3min
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2
Johnson's Dictionary - The Dictionary of the Lost Lexicographer
02:55 • 1min
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Johnson's Dictionary - The Dictionary of the English Language
04:20 • 5min
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The History of Linguistics - Webster's Dictionary
09:25 • 4min
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Linked in Jobs - The Sun Comes Out
13:02 • 2min
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The Importance of Webster's 1864 Dictionary
15:22 • 1min
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The Subsense
16:40 • 5min
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Revision of the Webster's Dictionary
21:42 • 2min
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Webster's 18 28 Dictionary
24:01 • 6min
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The Oxford English Dictionary - I Have No Citations for Duck
29:39 • 2min
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The Webster Tradition and the Oxford English Dictionary
31:25 • 4min
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The earliest dictionaries were the fruit of one person’s labor, but the 1864 Webster's Unabridged changed all of that.

Hosted by Emily Brewster, Ammon Shea, and Peter Sokolowski.

Produced in collaboration with New England Public Media.

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