Johnson's Dictionary: A Mini-Appreciation
Without it, we couldn't communicate with the ghosts
Picture a world teetering on the edge of linguistic chaos, where words morph faster than a politician’s promises, and the grand tomes of Shakespeare, Milton, and the King James Bible risk fading into gibberish.
This was England in the 1700s, a place where reading had caught fire among the gentry and the middling sorts, where people flipped pages in smok…
