The Evolution of English Lexicography (Classic Reprint)

When the A ct to facilitate the provision of Allotments for the Labouring Classes was before the House of Commons in 1887, a well-known member for a northern constituency asked the Minister who had charge of the measure for a definition of the term allotment, which occurred so often in the Bill. The Minister somewhat brusquely told his interrogator to look in the Dictionary at which there was, according to the newspapers, a laugh. The member warmly protested that, being called upon to consider a measure dealing with things therein called A llotments, a term not known to English Law, nor explained in the Bill itself, he had a right to ask for a definition. But the only answer he received was Johnson s Dictionary! Johnson s Dictionary! at which, according to the newspapers, the House gave another laugh, and the interrogator subsided.
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