Here is a real treat for word lovers: 3,100 selections from Dr. Johnson's historic dictionary, with definitions, etymologies and usage illustrations. To buss is charmingly defined as""To kiss; to ...

He was, according to his biographer James Boswell, a huge man. When he was barely out of infancy, he contracted scrofula, a disease that severely impaired his eyesight and left his face horribly ...

In his "Dictionary of the English Language," Samuel Johnson defined “lexicographer” as “a writer of dictionaries; a harmless drudge.” **novel: a) a piece of writing of some length with something wrong ...

Dramadocumentary telling the story of Samuel Johnsons creation of the first English dictionary in an attic room just off Fleet Street in Georgian London The depressive writerforhire with Tourettes ...

Ian Redford is playing legendary lexicographer Dr Samuel Johnson in Max Stafford-Clark’s Out of Joint production A Dish of Tea with Dr Johnson at the Arts Theatre. Here he reveals how he became ...

WE are apt to think of this great book as the work of a pious, not overclean old scholar, much given to talk and tea, and somewhat too fond of abusing people. It will come, therefore, as a surprise to ...