Samuel Johnson: "Lexicographer: a writer of dictionaries, a harmless drudge, that busies himself in tracing the original, and detailing the signification of words."
Your countryman. His Dictionary of the English Language, 1755.
Oo, oo! A Time magazine book review of 1963.
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Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.
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