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What did the English language lack when Johnson undertook his work?

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there was an embarrassing lack of comprehensive record of the English language so Johnson was commissioned to write his own dictionary
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They didn't have the knowledge which the English had which made them easier to take over since they didn't have to knowledge to take back what the English people had with made Johnson undertake his work
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