IELTS Academic Reading Sample 71 - Johnson's Dictionary sẽ giúp các bạn biết được cách thức làm bài thi cũng như củng cố kiến thức của mình, chuẩn bị tốt cho kì thi sắp tới. Mời các bạn tham khảo. | Johnson s Dictionary For the century before Johnson s Dictionary was The work was immense filing about eighty large published in 1775 there had been concern about notebooks and without a library to hand Johnson the state of the English language. There was no wrote the definitions of over 40 000 words and standard way of speaking or writing and no illustrated their many meanings with some 114 000 agreement as to the best way of bringing some quotations drawn from English writing on every order to the chaos of English spelling. Dr Johnson subject from the Elizabethans to his own time. He did provided the solution. not expel to achieve complete originality. Working to a deadline he had to draw on the best of all previous There had of course been dictionaries in the past dictionaries and to make his work one of heroic the first of these being a little book of some 120 synthesis. In fact it was very much more. pages compiled by a certain Robert Cawdray published in 1604 under the title A Table Unlike his predecessors Johnson treated English very Alphabeticall of hard usuall English wordes. Like the practically as a living language with many different various dictionaries that came after it during the shades of meaning. He adopted his definitions on the seventeenth century Cawdray s tended to principle of English common law - according to concentrate on scholarly words one function of the precedent. After its publication his Dictionary was not dictionary was to enable its student to convey an seriously rivalled for over a century. impression of fine learning. After many vicissitudes the Dictionary was finally Beyond the practical need to make order out of published on 15 April 1775. It was instantly recognised chaos the rise of dictionaries is associated with the as a landmark throughout Europe. This very noble rise of the English middle class who were anxious work wrote the leading Italian lexicographer will be a to define and circumscribe the various worlds to .
