Once Samuel Johnson, the famous author of the first Englishdictionary went to the fish market with a friend of his. He told himthat he could make a woman who had sold him bad fish angry.
“I won’t even say a bad word to her,” he added. Then he came upto the woman, raised her fish to her nose and silently showedthat it had a bad smell. The woman attacked him with some rudewords. Then Samuel Johnson answered, “You’re an article.”“You’re an article yourself,” she cried. “You’re a noun,” the linguist
continued, “and a pronoun." The woman couldn't
understand those Grammar terms, so she shook her
fist and called him a lot of rude words."You're a verb,"
he continued, " an adverb and an adjective!" And
each part of his speech made her angrier and angrier.