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Was Samuel Johnson's dictionary the first?

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Johnson's dictionary was not the first English dictionary, nor even among the first dozen. Over the previous 150 years more than twenty dictionaries had been published in England, the oldest of these being a Latin-English "wordbook" by Sir Thomas Elyot published in 1538.

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Answer: Samuel Johnson did not write the first English dictionary

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