Johnson’s finished dictionary contained 42,773 words, each of which featured a number of notes on their specific usage.
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It was while some of Napoleon’s engineers were working with the army to strengthen Fort Julien in the northern Delta area of Egypt that the granodiorite block we now know as the Rosetta Stone was uncovered.
On 15th April 1755, Samuel Johnson published “A Dictionary of the English Language” in London.
On the 19th July 1799, an announcement was made of the discovery of a slab of rock covered in carvings by French Lieutenant Pierre-François Bouchard in the area around Fort Julien near the Egyptian town of Rashid or, as it also known, Rosetta.
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