Give Credit Where It’s Due

I enjoyed ‘Fascinating Facts About Dictionaries’ (March) but was astonished that there was no mention of England’s greatest lexicographer, Dr Samuel Johnson. In 1755, after seven painstaking years, Johnson produced the first comprehensive English dictionary, which remained the pre-eminent work until the first publication of the Oxford English

Dictionary in the early 20th century. Johnson was a poet, writer and scholar and also had a sharp wit. RANDAL WILLIAMS