Posted on 10/05/08
E-VOX POPULI: OUR READERS WRITE
Kendall Defoe from Montreal writes: Has anyone given a thought to the dictionary? It may be one of those choices that is so obvious that it is overlooked, but it is hard to imagine the literature of the last 300 years without it. Writers need it; students need it; politicians and pundits who think they know better need it. And it is an interesting choice in that it is a book that was not written, it was compiled, first and famously by Samuel Johnson. Then there was the Oxford English Dictionary, taking more than a century to put together and relying on the input of scholars and at least one madman. Today, we all benefit from the labour and talent of endless minds engaged in creating the other Good Book. This deserves some space on your list and in the conversation.
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