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What was the name of Samuel Johnson's work that took him nine years to complete?

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Samuel Johnson's "A Dictionary of the English Language" took him nine years to complete and was published in 1755. It was a monumental work that had a significant impact on Modern English and was considered the pre-eminent English dictionary until the Oxford English Dictionary was published 150 years later.
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