A Concise History of the Oxford English Dictionary
ISBN-13:
9781523856213
ISBN-10:
1523856211
Edition:
1
Author:
Rob Walters
Publication date:
2016
Publisher:
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format:
Paperback
64 pages
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ISBN-13:
9781523856213
ISBN-10:
1523856211
Edition:
1
Author:
Rob Walters
Publication date:
2016
Publisher:
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Format:
Paperback
64 pages
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A Concise History of the Oxford English Dictionary (ISBN-13: 9781523856213 and ISBN-10: 1523856211), written by authors
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At a grand party to celebrate completion of the first edition of the Dictionary the Prime Minister of the day called the achievement ‘the greatest enterprise of its kind in history’. The Times greeted the second edition as ‘The greatest work in dictionary making ever undertaken’. And The New York Times topped that with ‘The gigantic total picture of the English language...an epic achievement.’ Wow! So what’s the story? How did it start? What preceded it? Who did the work? Why did it take so long? How did Oxford get involved? And why is the work never finished? This concise history will give you answers to those questions and more in an account which naturally focuses on Oxford, home to the Dictionary for 130 years. Written in the centenary year of the death of its most famous editor, this book celebrates the man whose name is, above all others, synonymous with the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary: James Murray.
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