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The creation of important reference works in the eighteenth century. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary and his decision to include some slang words. Diderot's Encyclopédie, an outgrowth of the Enlightenment that aimed to inform and whose organization discouraged censorship. The use of illustrations in dictionaries. The compiling of dictionaries today; how decisions to add new words are made.
Program 19
  Participants
David Barnhart
Gwin T. Kolb
Philip Stewart

 

 
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