Words of the world : a global history of the Oxford English dictionary / Sarah Ogilvie
Imprint
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2012
Descript
xvii, 241 p. : ill. ; 23 cm
CONTENT
Entering the OED -- A global dictionary from the beginning -- James Murray and words of the world -- James Murray and the Stanford Dictionary controversy -- William Craigie, Charles Onions, and the mysterious case of the vanishing tramlines -- Robert Burchfield and words of the world in the OED Supplements
SUBJECT
Oxford English dictionary
Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- History and criticism