il Giardino Romantico

Who is Samuel Johnson? I'll bet not many people know his contribution to the English speaking world. We are looking at the house of the person who put together the VERY FIRST English dictionary! All of you who have ever even touched a dictionary, whether Merriam Webster, Longman, Cambridge, or even the mighty OED, have Johnson to thank for it! 

Samuel Johnson到底是誰啊？我想應該沒有很多人知道他對英語世界的貢獻吧！這個家的主人呢，就是寫出有史以來第一本英文字典的偉人啊！即使你只是輕輕地觸摸過一本字典，無論是Merriam Webster, Longman, Cambridge或是神聖的OED，都要記得這一切都是拜Johnson所賜啊！


'When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.'
『當你厭倦了倫敦，你也厭倦了生命。』


Everything Johnsonian. 
Johnson相關出版品


Right across from Johnson's is his contemporary, Boswell. 
Johnson對面住的也是當代（十八世紀）的著名作家Boswell. 


Who let the dog out? 誰把狗放出來啦？


Hodge is Johnson's dog... Hogde是Johnson的狗



As I was running late for my other plans, and out of budget for admission fees, this is all I saw.

因為當天行程還很多，也快沒經費了，所以就只拍了這些～

天仙念：早期的字典（例如Johnson所編的或至今的OED）編排過程真的是個大工程。這些字典不單只是把單字的意思講出來，然後給幾個例句而已。而是把英文有史以來的出版品都翻遍，找出實際的應用例句，然後再加以分析每個單字的原由。雖然後來Johnson所編的字典發現有需多不精確的地方，但他確實是寫出了有史以來第一個具有公信力的英文字典。題外話：這也是為什麼OED仍然在所有英文字典裡勝出。