10 Famous People Named Sam

Not at all. Maybe it's because dictionaries aren't forever like literature, so despite the importance of his work, OED and others later became better known by the general public. Also his name doesn't live on in the company/dictionary names like Noah Webster's, though if I remember correctly, his percentage on JetPunk quizzes isn't that great either.

From Wikipedia:

Dr. Johnson, was an English writer who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. Johnson was a devout Anglican and committed Tory, and is described by the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in English history".

After nine years of work, Johnson's A Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1755. It had a far-reaching effect on Modern English and has been acclaimed as "one of the greatest single achievements of scholarship". This work brought Johnson popularity and success. Until the completion of the Oxford English Dictionary 150 years later, Johnson's was the pre-eminent British dictionary.

That comment was torture to read — like a song that ends in the middle of a measure, and not on the key nite.

I think you mean intragal *faucet*.

I think you meant most people could careless (no space)

Harris is indeed an excellent Sam.