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· Stephen Bayley's A Dictionary of Idiocy is published by Gibson Square Books.

After nine years of work, Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1755.

Language always interested him – a dictionary of the Khazars, a dictionary of Yiddish.

Also, you would find a dictionary of Yanomamo curses.

What, exactly, is a dictionary of the future?

He wrote a dictionary of advertising terms, a dictionary of synonyms and antonyms, a medical and nursing dictionary, a dictionary of confusable words; at his death he was working on a dictionary of nautical and maritime words.

The word dictionary is also extended, in a loose sense, to reference books with entries in alphabetical order, such as a dictionary of biography, a dictionary of heraldry, or a dictionary of plastics.

In 1746 he wrote The Plan of a Dictionary of the English Language and signed a contract for A Dictionary of the English Language.

Among the things it wants is a "dictionary of 'tweet' lingo".

(Look it up in a dictionary of Oz-speak, if you don't know).

And a dictionary of the 1930s could still dictate which words belonged in polite conversation.