Today marks the 254th anniversary of the publication of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary. In homage, and because I don't know what else I have to offer this day, as I work to put the finishing touches on two grants due this afternoon, I'll leave you with the preface to Johnson's Dictionary. (I tried to find a Google link to the whole things, assuming that surely, with its hundreds of thousands -- or millions -- of public domain titles, I'd be able to quickly find a scan of it, and failed. Went to Scribd instead.)
Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language by Samuel Johnson
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