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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Oxford University Press
2003
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Henry James a collection of critical essays