Google Doodle Remembering the English Dictionary Samuel Johnson
Google Doodle Celebrates Birth of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Johnson , Who Is He?
Google Doodle Celebrates Birth of Samuel Johnson, Who Is He?
London - https://www.google.com/doodles commemorates the 308th anniversary of the birth of the Modern English Dictionary who falls on this day, September 18, 2017, Samuel Johnson. Johnson was a famous figure as the most comprehensive dictionary compiler in the 1750s.
Johnson is also famous for his contribution to the world of English literature. He is known as an essayist, critic, biographer and lexicographer.
Quoted from the Telegraph on Monday (09/18/2017), is a bit ironic for Google today by choosing Samuel Johnson as Google Doodle. This is due to the search engine company on the internet that became part of the decline in dictionary sales. But in many ways, Johnson's original book is the predecessor of the search engine.
Johnson, born in 1709, spent nine years working on https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Dictionary_of_the_English_Language was completed in 1928.
Despite his tremendous efforts towards English lexicography, luck is often like avoiding Johnson. She is often heartbroken with women and falls in addiction to alcohol.
Johnson was once infected with tuberculosis that caused changes in the structure of the face when he was an adult. His wife, Tetty, became a laudanum addict - opium mixed with alcohol - and died in 1752, before his dictionary was completed.
He then fell in love with a married woman, Hester Thrale. When Hester's husband died, instead of marrying Johnson, she went to Italy and married his music teacher.
Despite his gloomy personal life, Johnson is recognized as one of the greatest writers of lexicographers in the world, as well as the subject of modern biography.
Johnson, who grew up in Staffordshire, was not the first English dictionary maker. There are some people who precede it. However, the contents of the dictionary explanation is bad, as well as often stiff and "dry".
It took nine years for Johnson to finish the dictionary. He rarely gets up before noon.
Although initially he promised to finish it in three years, but he was late.
Once done, the dictionary is just like a work of art rather than a reference. That's because the dictionary is full of funny definitions.
One is the notion of oats or wheat. In Johnson's dictionary, he writes, Oats: A grain, which in England is generally given to horses, but in Scotland appears to support the people. Or translated with the understanding: 'wheat in England for horse food, while in Scotland commonly eaten by humans'.
The first edition of the dictionary is arguably less comprehensive, since it contains only 42,773 entries, while in English there are more than 250 thousand words.