Tribal leaders say Durbin Feeling, who is known to be the single largest contributor to the Cherokee language since Sequoyah, has passed away at 74-years-old.

His publication of a dictionary in 1755 earned him a degree from Oxford (Picture: CORBIS/ Getty) Samuel Johnson, the man who wrote the first comprehensive English dictionary, is honoured by today ...

Compiling the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary was a seventy-year endeavour that called on thousands of volunteers from all walks of life.The Dictionary People, reviewed by Daisy Hay in ...

Samuel Johnson was more than a quotable grouch who wrote the dictionary. Enlightened and courteous: Samuel Johnson as painted by Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792) Universal History Archive/Getty Images.

Dorothy Casterline, who as a young researcher at Gallaudet University in the early 1960s helped write the first comprehensive dictionary of American Sign Language, a book that revolutionized the ...

Astonishingly, the very first Jèrriais-French Dictionary was essentially the work of a single person from St Ouen. The late Dr Frank Le Maistre published this Jèrriais-French dictionary in 1966.

Watch the latest from ITV News - Discover the story of Dr Frank Le Maistre who spent decades noting conversations from thousands of Jersey people to create the first Jèrriais-French Dictionary.