[Read ebook] The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
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| #275194 in Books | Winchester, Simon | 2004-10-14 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 5.30 x.60 x7.90l,.71 | File Name: 019517500X | 288 pages
||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Oh, I say!|By M. Cotone|An utter delight, if you love languages and linguistics and the often quirky personalities and strange behaviors of the uncommonly intelligent and life-long academic. If you don't find fascinating the study of the first nor yourself readily bemused by the second, you probably won't enjoy this book. Simply, it is the story of the conception and complet|From Publishers Weekly|With his usual winning blend of scholarship and accessible, skillfully paced narrative, Winchester (Krakatoa) returns to the subject of his first bestseller, The Professor and the Madman, to tell the eventful, personality-filled history o
From the best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa comes a truly wonderful celebration of the English language and of its unrivaled treasure house, the Oxford English Dictionary.
Writing with marvelous brio, Winchester first serves up a lightning history of the English language--"so vast, so sprawling, so wonderfully unwieldy"--and pays homage to the great dictionary makers, from ...
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