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.
But by far the largest Greek contribution to English vocabulary is the huge number of scientific, medical, and technical neologisms that have been coined by compounding Greek roots and affixes to produce novel words which never existed in the Greek language: utopia (1516, Î¿á½ 'not' + ÏÏÏÎ¿Ï 'place'), zoology (1669, Î¶á¿·Î¿Î½ + Î»Î¿Î³Î¯Î±), hydrodynamics (1738, á½Î´ÏÏ + Î´ÏÎ½Î±Î¼Î¹ÎºÏÏ), photography (1834, Ïá¿¶Ï + Î³ÏÎ±ÏÎ¹ÎºÏÏ), oocyte (1895, á¾ ÏÎ½ + ÎºÏÏÎ¿Ï ...