The first, incomplete Navajo-English Dictionary was compiled, in 1958, by Leon Wall, an official in the U.S. government’s Bureau of Indian Affairs. Wall, who was in charge of a literacy program on the ...
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His publication of a dictionary in 1755 earned him a degree from Oxford (Picture: CORBIS/ Getty) Samuel Johnson, the man who wrote the first comprehensive English dictionary, is honoured by today’s ...