Lexicography Sam

You remember Samuel Johnson -- creator of the first great dictionary of the English language. His London home is on the route of our recent London exploration walk. Just around the corner from his home a major office building is being built and the builders have decided to do something unusual but fitting. They've surrounded the construction site with the usual fence but the bank who's financing the construction had the fence painted with large letters of the alphabet, each one accompanied by a word, plus definition, from Johnson's dictionary.

Check out some representative entries at: http://chuck.smugmug.com/gallery/891603/1/40413015