AuthorWinchester, Simon
TitleThe meaning of everything : the story of the Oxford English dictionary / Simon Winchester
Imprint Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2003
Descript xxv, 260 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm

CONTENT

Taking the measure of it all -- THe construction of the pigeon-holes -- The general officer commanding -- Battling with the undertow -- Pushing through the untrodden forest -- So heavily goes the Chariot


SUBJECT

  1. Murray
  2. James Augustus Henry
  3. Sir
  4. 1837-1915
  5. Furnivall
  6. Frederick James
  7. 1825-1910
  8. Coleridge
  9. Herbert
  10. 1830-1861
  11. Oxford English dictionary
  12. English language -- Lexicography -- History -- 19th century
  13. Lexicographers -- Great Britain -- Biography
  14. Lexicology -- History

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