The meaning of everything the story of 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, smug and...

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Main Author: Simon Winchester
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English
Published: Oxford,New York Oxford University Press 2004
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