This postRikker pointed out an interesting find on Google Books. It’s a “New Proposal for the Publication of a New English Dictionary by the Philological Society.” And it’s the genesis of the Oxford English Dictionary, twenty years before they got James Murray onboard to edit it.
After that I was poking around further on the site, searching for “Narnia” under full book view. Apparently Narnia was an old Roman colony. I had no idea…
