The meaning of everything the story of the Oxford English dictionary

The meaning of everything the story of the Oxford English dictionary

Writing with marvelous brio, [the author] first serves up a lightning history of the English language - "so vast, so sprawling, so wonderfully unwieldy"--And pays homage to the great dictionary makers, from "the irredeemably famous" Samuel Johnson to the "short, pale, smug a...

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Main Author: Winchester, Simon (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2003
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Murray, James Augustus Henry, > Sir, > 1837-1915
Furnivall, Frederick James, > 1825-1910
Coleridge, Herbert, > 1830-1861
English language > History > Lexicography > 19th century
Lexicographers > Biography > Great Britain
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