Author: Dr. Lynda Mugglestone
Edition: annotated edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0300106998
Edition: annotated edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0300106998
Lost for Words: The Hidden History of the Oxford English Dictionary
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The task of the dictionary was to bear full and impartial witness to the language it recorded. But behind the immaculate typography of the finished text, the proofs tell a very different story he story behind the creation of what is indisputably the greatest dictionary in the language has become a popular fascination. This book looks at the history of the great first edition of 1928, and at the men (and occasionally women) who distilled words and usages from centuries of English writing and Athrough an act of intellectual alchemy captured the spirit of a civilization."
The task of the dictionary was to bear full and impartial witness to the language it recorded. But behind the immaculate typography of the finished text, the proofs tell a very different story. This vast archive, unexamined until now, reveals the argumen
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