Who Wrote The Dictionary?

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It was actually Samuel Johnson Jr.  who, in 1798, wrote the first English dictionary in America; a school teacher of no relation to the famous lexicographer of earlier in the 18th century, a snippet of fact that seems to delight every lexicographic historian. 

Source: {http://blog.oup.com/2009/01/samuel-johnson/}

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