Merriam-Webster dictionary goes digital. (Link-Up: At Home).

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Schoolmaster Robert Cawdrey published the first completely English dictionary in 1604. It listed only 3,000 words and had a title so long that it seems to include a good chunk of them: A Table Alphabeticall, conteyning and teaching the true writing and understanding of hard usuall English wordes, borrowed from the Hebrew, Greek, Latine, or French.

In 1755, Samuel Johnson published the first major English dictionary to use illustrative historical quotations, his famous Dictionary of the English Language.

Then came the American lexicographer Noah Webster. He grew up during ...

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