Sept. 18 (UPI) --Google is celebrating what would have been the 308th birthday of lexicographer Samuel Johnson with a new Doodle. Google's homepage features an animated sequence of Johnson inside of a ...

Google’s Doodle today commemorates the birthday of the compiler of the first authoritative English dictionary - Samuel Johnson, who was born 308 years ago today in Lichfield, Staffordshire. Already a ...

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 ...

James Boswell is a hard act to follow. His Life of Johnson, written at close range after more hours in pubs and miles of travel with his eccentric subject than most could have withstood, is detailed, ...

When Samuel Johnson compiled the first comprehensive dictionary of the English language in 1755, it stood 18 inches tall. A Dictionary of the English Language took nine years to complete and held its ...

Today would have been dictionary pioneer Samuel Johnson's 308th birthday and to honor his important innovations, Google created an animated Google Doodle just for him. 1. He authored “A Dictionary of ...

According to conventional wisdom, most people would rather be known as a great writer than a great lawyer. Yet one of the most famous English writers regretted that he had not become a lawyer. I’m ...

Mr. Keizer is an author and a contributing editor of Harper’s Magazine and Virginia Quarterly Review. If resolution makers wanted a patron saint, they could do worse than Samuel Johnson (1709 to 1784) ...