Description: Meaning of Everything : The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary, Paperback by Winchester, Simon, ISBN 0198814399, ISBN-13 9780198814399, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "The greatest enterprise of its kind in history," was the verdict of British prime minister Stanley Baldwin in June 1928 when The Oxford English Dictionary was finally published. With its 15,490 pages and nearly two million quotations, it was indeed a monumental achievement, gleaned from the efforts of hundreds of ordinary and extraordinary people who made it their mission to catalogue the English language in its entirety. In The Meaning of Everything, Simon Winchester celebrates this remarkable feat, and the fascinating characters who played such a vital part in its execution, from the colourful Frederick Furnivall, cheerful promoter of an all-female sculling crew, to James Murray, self-educated son of a draper, who spent half a century guiding the project towards fruition. Along the way we learn which dictionary editor became the inspiration for Kenneth Grahame's Ratty in The Wind in the Willows, and why Tolkien found it so hard to define "walrus".
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Book Title: Meaning of Everything : The Story of the Oxford English Dictionar
Number of Pages: 336 Pages
Publication Name: Meaning of Everything : the Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
Language: English
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Subject: Dictionaries, Europe / Great Britain / General, Linguistics / General
Publication Year: 2018
Item Height: 0.7 in
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Item Weight: 11.2 Oz
Author: Simon Winchester Obe
Item Length: 7.7 in
Subject Area: Référence, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
Item Width: 5.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
