The meaning of everything : the story of the Oxford English Dictionary /

The meaning of everything : the story of the Oxford English Dictionary / Simon Winchester.

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"From the best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa comes a truly wonderful celebration of the English language and of its unrivaled treasure house, the Oxford English Dictionary. Writing with marvelous brio, Winchester first serves up a l...

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Main Author: Winchester, Simon (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Subjects:
Murray, James A. H. > (James Augustus Henry), > 1837-1915.
Furnivall, Frederick James, > 1825-1910.
Coleridge, Herbert, > 1830-1861.
Oxford English dictionary.
English language > Lexicography > History > 19th century.
Lexicographers > Great Britain > Biography.
English language > Lexicography.
Lexicographers.
Great Britain.
Biographies.
History.

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