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Light the candles,Singapore Archives word nerds: It's lexicographer Samuel Johnson's 308th birthday.

In celebration, Monday's Google Doodle honors Johnson, known best as writer of A Dictionary of the English Language, published in 1755.

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According to Humanities,Johnson was not the first lexicographer, nor the first to record definitions, but he was the first to craft a dictionary that sought to standardize the English language-- to create a set of rules to which writers and speakers could adhere.

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And, as the Encyclopædia Brittanica notes, his dictionary is remembered for the detail and clarity of its definitions in comparison to previous attempts from other writers.

Per Brittanica:

"Johnson’s accomplishment was to provide for the English language a dictionary that incorporated with skill and intellectual power the prevailing ideals and resources and the best available techniques of European lexicography."

In short, A Dictionary of the English Language was known for being the greatest in its class-- the iPhone in a sea of BlackBerry smartphones.

After all, best, not first is a popular business philosophy for a reason.

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