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Author:	Simon Winchester	Publisher:	Oxford Univ Pr
ISBN-10:	0198607024	Subject:	Biography & Memoir
ISBN-13:	9780198607021	Topic:	Literary
Format:	Hardcover	Language:	English
Publication Year:	2003	Condition:	Like New
Special Attributes:	1st Edition

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Begun in 1857, the Oxford English Dictionary (fondly known as the O.E.D.) was finished in the 1920s, and has become the definitive source for the meaning and, more importantly, the etymology of every English word. Simon Winchester's account of its history begins with a look at the English language and how it has changed over the centuries, and at the previous attempts to codify it. He then goes on to profile the O.E.D.'s three main perpetrators: Herbert Coleridge, Frederick Furnivall, and the passionately committed polymath James Augustus Henry Murray, and writes about some of the unexpected problems that arose during the dictionary's making. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.
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Length:	256 pages
Height:	8.5 in.
Width:	5.5 in.
Thickness:	1.2 in.
Weight:	20.8 oz.

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The best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman traces the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its earliest inception through its long path to completion, describes the nuts-and-bolts process of creating a dictionary, and includes anecdotes about its creators and their work. 150,000 first printing. (Language)
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"It is teeming with knowledge and alive with insights. Winchester handles humor and awe with modesty and cunning. His devotion to the story is the more eloquent for the cool-handedness of its telling. His prose is supremely readable, admirable in its lucid handling of lexicographical mire....[A] deft and engrossing story...." New York Times Book Review - William F. Buckley (10/12/2003)

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The Meaning of Everything

The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary

by Simon Winchester

Oxford University Press First Edition 2003

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Please note that this is a softcover, although issued with the hardcover ISBN as is standard practice with advanced reading copies.

From the author who made the making of a dictionary a Best Seller in The Professor and the Madman. (Available in another auction -- click on the Red Door icon to go to my eBay Store, and put "Madman" in the Search engine.) Includes a brief passage about JRR Tolkien's (The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion) involvement in the Dictionary's creation.

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