3 - The number of years Johnson contracted to make the dictionary, 9 - The number of years it actually took him to write the dictionary, life - Famous Johnson saying: 'When a man's tired of London, he's tired of _______', Fleet - The dictionary was written in a house off _________ Street, James Boswell - The name of Johnson's biographer, 1709 - Johnsom was born in what year?, bookshop - Johnson's father owned a _______________, The Gentleman's Magazine - Name of the publication Johnson wrote for when he first came to London in 1737., dictionary - Britain's sense of its identity and need for a ______________ like the ones produced in Italy and France., 6 - Johnson took out a 3 year contract with how many bookseller-publishers?, Gough - The dictionary was written at 17 __________ Square in London., amanuensis - Another word for a copiest - one of six Johnson employed to help him., bedpresser - 'A heavy, lazy fellow', fopdoodle - 'A fool, an insignificant wretch', demonstration - Science: 'Certainty grounded on ___________', abecedarian - 'He who teaches or learns the alphabet', prescriptivist - Johnson wanted his dictionary to 'legislate' but learnt that he could not be _____________, 134 - How many applications did he discover for the verb 'to take'?, The Rambler - The name of the magazine Johnson himself started., lexicographer - His description of the dictionary enterprise: 'The dreams of a poet doomed to awake a _____________', mad - Johnson spent his life fearing he might go ________, 2000 - How many copies of the dictionary were printed for the first edition in 1755, Rasselas - The title of Johnson's novel., George III - Which king gave Johnson a pension?, The Oxford English Dictionary - What publication began as a revision of Johnson's dictionary, authors - Complete: 'The chief glory of every people arises from its ___________', etymology - The study of the origin of words., 42,000 - How many entries are in the dictionary?, quotations - The dictionary was the first to include illustrative ____________, the internet - To what modern technological innovation is the dictionary compared,

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