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The meaning of Everything -History of Oxford dictionary

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Author: Simon WinchesterFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford Univ PrISBN-10: 0198607024
ISBN-13: 9780198607021Subject: Historical
Publication Year: 2003Topic: --
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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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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 story of the Oxford English Dictionary is a tale of strife, valor and the glorified messiness of the English language. Simon Winchester has given us a book that deals not only with a book, but with a language and the sometimes eccentric, sometimes brilliant men that helped create it. From the early invasions of England's shores to the Oxford-cloistered editor James Murray who toiled in a tin-roofed shack, this is a fascinating, meticulously researched history of one of the world's most influential tomes. 260 pages,


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