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greatest was Doctor Johnson, whose 'Dictionary of the English Language' which took him 9 years to write. It was 18 inches tall and 20 inches wide and contained 42,773 entries meaning that even if you couldn't read it was still pretty useful if you wanted to reach a high shelf For the first time, when people were calling you 'a pickle herring' (a jack-pudding; a merryandrew; a zany; a buffoon), a 'jobbernowl (loggerhead; blockhead) or a 'fopdoodle' (a fool; an insignificant wretch) you could understand exactly what they meant and you'd have the consolation of knowing they all used the standard spelling. 去书内
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    • 背景：英语扩张导致拼写混乱，词典编纂者（词典学家）试图规范这种“无政府状态”。 • 关键人物与成果：约翰逊博士耗时9年编写《英语词典》，该词典尺寸大（18英寸高、20英寸宽），收录42773个词条，首次让人们能准确理解“pickle herring（丑角）”“jobbernowl（笨蛋）”等词汇的含义，确立了标准拼写。 • 后续发展：尽管约翰逊博士努力规范，新词仍不断产生，1857年《牛津英语词典》开始编纂，耗时70年完成。

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