WELCOME TO Houston, Mississippi. Houston is located in Chickasaw County, Mississippi, United States. Houston is a Main Street Community. The population was 3,623 at the 2010 census. Houston is one of two county seats in Chickasaw County. Joel Pinson donated land for Houston and requested it be named for his good friend, Sam Houston.
Who invented the dictionary? Dictionaries have been around since 2300 BC and the oldest dictionaries were discovered in Syria. Over the years Chinese, European, Arabic and English dictionaries were also written. Robert Cawdrey, an English school teacher published the first English alphabetical dictionary. However it was Samuel Johnson who compiled the first widely recognized and reliable dictionary in English in 1755. Samuel Johnson was a popular British author and published âA Dictionary of English Languageâ which took him nine years to complete.
1755 - Johnson's Dictionary. Samuel Johnson's 'Dictionary of the English Language' is one of the most famous dictionaries in history. First published in 1755, the dictionary took just over eight years to compile, required six helpers, and listed 40,000 words.iterary quotations. In all, there are over 114,000 quotations in the dictionary. Johnson was the first English lexicographer to use citations in this way, a method that greatly influenced the style of future dictionaries.