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Two birds of prey -- and a stack of books on Klingon, including the official Klingon/German dictionary. (The one with lots of errors.)
According to my mother, this belonged to my grandfather when he was a young man in New York City in the early 1900s. I have had it re-bound. Dimensions 6.5 x 14 cm (2.5 x 5.5 inches).
that's my engraved dictionary from unl and my high school yearbooks underneath.
the spine is in worse shape than the front cover
A long overdue visit to The Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum & Bookshop in Lichfield.
First photographed the exterior in 2009, and later visited Dr Johnson's London home. But never got around to popping into his birthplace until 2025!
Samuel Johnson Birthplace Museum is a biographical museum and bookshop located in the centre of the city of Lichfield, Staffordshire, in England. The building is a Grade I listed building situated at the corner of Market Street and Breadmarket Street opposite the market square.
The museum opened in 1901 and is dedicated to the life and works of the author and lexicographer Samuel Johnson who wrote the first authoritative Dictionary of the English Language. Johnson's father built the house in 1707 and Samuel was born in the house on 18 September 1709 and spent the majority of his first 27 years in the house before leaving for London in 1737. The house was used as a commercial property for various trades between the time of Johnson's death in 1784 until the house was bought for the city by John Gilbert in 1900 for the purpose of retaining the building as a museum to Johnson. The house remains in active use as a museum.
David Garrick as Tancred
The Middle English Dictionary, published in 2001 by the University of Michigan, has been described as "the greatest achievement in medieval scholarship in America." Its 15,000 pages offer a comprehensive analysis of lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500, based on the analysis of a collection of over 3 million citation slips, the largest collection of this kind available.
Unintended consequences might occur if we muddle it up, throw everything in the blender, and attempt to produce something new. Liberally misconstruing dictionary definitions of our language doesn't help. #consumption #abstractphotography #fineartphotography #pandamnit #lockdown
Remember when a Dictionary helped define language?