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| #219135 in Books | 2001-03-01 | Ingredients: Example Ingredients | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 7.99 x.90 x5.00l,.64 | File type: PDF | 462 pages||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Debra Knudson|The perfect gift for my husband who is a big Oxford English Dictionary fan.|1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| This is a great read. The story of the creation of the ...|By kcagey|I can get caught up in the OED for hours. This is a great read. The story of the creation of the OED is w||"A biography that possesses many of the virtues of James Murray himself— grace, humor, intelligence, curiosity, and scholarship." -- Time
"A moving and dramatic story . . . sometimes tragic, often comic, ultimately triumphant." -- <
This unique and celebrated biography describes how a largely self-educated boy from a small village in Scotland entered the world of scholarship and became the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and a great lexicographer. It also provides an absorbing account of how the dictionary was written, the personalities of the people working on it, and the endless difficulties that nearly led to the whole enterprise being abandoned. It is a magnificent...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary | K.M. Elisabeth Murray. I have read it a couple of times and even shared with my family members. Really good. Couldnt put it down.
