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9780300021318

Caught in the Web of Words: James A. H. Murray and the "Oxford English Dictionary"

Caught in the Web of Words: James A. H. Murray and the "Oxford English Dictionary"
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  • ISBN-13: 9780300021318
  • ISBN: 0300021313
  • Publisher: Yale University Press

AUTHOR

Murray, K. M. Elisabeth

SUMMARY

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 9780300021318 and ISBN 0300021313.

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