The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
Simon Winchester OBE
ISBN: | 9780199813643 |
Publisher: | OUP Oxford |
Published: | 23 September, 2004 |
Format: | eBook |
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The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
Simon Winchester OBE
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 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,
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