PURPOSE AND GOALS

Thankfully, 173 years later (New “World's Greatest”), the creation of the OED would come much closer to fulfilling Johnson's original ideals, regarding both example sentences and authoritativeness of word usage. That work, of course, shall be discussed in this paper after Noah Webster's contribution to lexicography is evaluated. ................
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