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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 & became the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, & 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 & the endless difficulties which nearly led to the whole enterprise being abandoned.
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Caught in the Web of Words, Katharine Maud Elisabeth Murray
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- Released
- 1977
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- Language
- English
- Released
- 1977
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 0300021313
- ISBN13
- 9780300021318
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Historical Themes, History, True Stories, Biographies, Autobiographies & Memoirs, Languages, Linguistics, About Books
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- 4.05 out of 5
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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 & became the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, & 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 & the endless difficulties which nearly led to the whole enterprise being abandoned.