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Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"The Oxford English Dictionary is one of mankind’s greatest achievements, and yet, curiously, its creators are almost never considered. Who were the people behind this unprecedented book? As Sarah Ogilvie reveals, they include three murderers, a collector of pornography, the daughter of Karl Marx, a president of Yale, a radical suffragette, a vicar who was later found dead in the cupboard of his chapel, an inventor of the first American subway,...
5) The word detective: searching for the meaning of it all at the Oxford English Dictionary, a memoir
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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