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The influence of Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language on the development of the language has been widely assumed |
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Samuel Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language played a role in propagating a standard spelling among the less literate |
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Samuel Johnson was an enthusiastic reader of classical and English literature from his earliest years |
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It took Samuel Johnson eight or nine years to complete work on his Dictionary of the English Language |
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With his Dictionary of the English Language, Samuel Johnson provided a powerful but conservative model of language usage |