Based on the passage, what made johnson's
dictionary innovative?
so far have i been from any care to grace my pages with
modern decorations, that i have studiously endeavoured
to collect examples and authorities from the writers
before the restoration, whose works i regard as the wells
of english undefiled, as the pure sources of genuine
diction.
- preface to a dictionary of the english
language,
samuel johnson
it was the first dictionary to try to restore english to
its early form.
it was the first dictionary to use modern page
decorations.
it was the first dictionary to trace word usage by
using quotations from authoritative writers.
it was the first dictionary to try to correct the writing
of past authors.