Wednesday, January 29, 2003
[M]ay the lexicographer be derided, who being able to produce no example of a nation that has preserved their words and phrases from mutability, shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language, and secure it from corruption and decay, that it is in his power to change sublunary nature, and clear the world at once from folly, vanity, and affectation.
--Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Dictionary of the English Language
--Samuel Johnson, Preface to the Dictionary of the English Language
# posted by Sweatpants Money : 1/29/2003 05:21:00 PM
