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The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary

by Simon Winchester

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 “the irredeemably famous” Samuel Johnson to the “short, pale, smug and boastful” schoolmaster from New Hartford, Noah Webster.

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Publication date

2018

Format

Print edition

Pages

304

ISBN

9780198814399