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Read the excerpts from samuel johnson’s preface to a dictionary of the english language. thus have i laboured by settling the orthography, displaying the analogy, regulating the structures, and ascertaining the signification of english words, to perform all the parts of a faithful lexicographer: but i have not always executed my own scheme, or satisfied my own expectations. the underlined word emerges as a key term in the preface because johnson

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