• despite plagiarizing a Chinese-French-Latin dictionary ordered by Napoleon, Chrétien-Louis-Joseph de Guignes went on to become a member of the French Academy of Sciences?
• in 1887, Marius Nygaard co-published a Latin-Norwegian dictionary which is still in use?
• the 2007 video game My Spanish Coach contains nearly 10,000 words in the game's dictionary that the player can learn?
• the Onkochishinsho was the first Japanese language dictionary to collate words in the now-standard gojūon order?
• Quốc ngữ, the Vietnamese alphabet in general use today, was established by the 1651 trilingual Latin-Portuguese-Vietnamese dictionary Dictionarium Annamiticum Lusitanum et Latinum?
• Ordbogen.com, the most popular online dictionary in Denmark, was relaunched after a predecessor was taken offline for over a year due to a lack of funding?
• linguist Trygve Knudsen was co-editor of the dictionary Norsk Riksmålsordbok from 1925 until its completion in 1957?
• G. Venkatasubbaiah is regarded as the father of the modern Kannada dictionary?
• John C. Cremony was a Boston newspaperman and United States Army Major who wrote the first dictionary of the Apache language and an account of their culture in 1869?
• lexicographer Henry Cockeram wrote the first known English language dictionary to contain "dictionary" in the title?

Facts on topics related to Dictionary

Lexicography

• lexicographer Henry Cockeram wrote the first known English language dictionary to contain "dictionary" in the title?
• the village of Christmas Common was the home of philologist and lexicographer William Craigie?

Idiom

• numerous common idioms feature one of the various slang meanings of 'dime'?
• some scientists, in response to the popular idiom dismissing the possibility, have conducted experiments to compare apples and oranges?
  
• the idiom forty winks relates to the biblical use of the number 40, thus meaning just the right amount of sleep?
• the common idiom behind the eight ball is derived from the pocket billiards game of kelly pool?
• the play Four Nights in Knaresborough, which tells the story of the aftermath of Thomas Becket's murder using modern language and idiom, is to be re-made as an action movie in the style of Young Guns?