When was the first dictionary of English words created?

raman   November 30, 2011   Comments Off on When was the first dictionary of English words created?

In the year 1604, Robert Cawdry created the first dictionary of English words entitled “A Table Alphabeticall” but it contained only 3000 vocabulary words. The truly reliable English Dictionary known as “A Dictionary of the English Language” was produced by Samuel Johnson in 1755.

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first dictionary of English Inventor Samuel Johnson