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.
The early modern English language was less than 100 years old in 1590 when Shakespeare was writing. No dictionaries had yet been written and most documents were still written in Latin. He contributed over 3,000 words to the English language because he was the first author to write them down. Of this number more than one tenth or 1,700 were used for the first time.