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9780192812650
Caught in the Web of Words: James A. H. Murray and the "Oxford English Dictionary"
by Murray, K. M. Elisabeth, Burchfield, Robert W.
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- ISBN-13: 9780192812650
- ISBN: 0192812653
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
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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 lexicographer greater by far than Dr. Johnson. It also provides an absorbing account of how the dictionary was written, the personalities of the people working on it, and the endless difficulties which nearly led to the whole enterprise being abandoned.Murray, K. M. Elisabeth is the author of 'Caught in the Web of Words: James A. H. Murray and the "Oxford English Dictionary"' with ISBN 9780192812650 and ISBN 0192812653.
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