Globish: How the English Language Became the World's Language by Robert McCrum

Author:Robert McCrum [McCrum, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Language Arts & Disciplines, Linguistics, Historical & Comparative, Social Science, anthropology, Cultural & Social, history, social history
ISBN: 9780307374578
Google: IsWWvjaQ-t0C
Publisher: Doubleday Canada
Published: 2010-05-25T00:23:59.704523+00:00

1. The operation of the mind; the act of thinking. 2. Idea; image formed in the mind. 3. Sentiment; fancy; imagery. 4. Reflection; particular consideration. 5. Conception; preconceived notion. 6. Opinion; judgement. 7. Meditation; serious consideration. 8. Design; purpose. 9. Silent contemplation. 10. Solicitude; care, concern. 11. Expectation. 12. A small degree; a small quantity.

For all its eccentricities this two-volume work is a masterpiece and a landmark, in Johnson’s own words, ‘setting the orthography, displaying the analogy, regulating the structures, and ascertaining the significations of English words’. It was an achievement that, in Boswell’s words, ‘conferred stability on the language of his country’, a stability that would be invaluable in the decades to come. But, though it made him famous and well esteemed, the Dictionary did not allay his incessant money troubles. In 1759 Johnson was so hard up that he was forced to dash off the potboiling fable Rasselas, to pay, he said, for his mother’s funeral.

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