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 | #215294 in Books |  imusti |  2016-10-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  7.00 x1.40 x9.60l,.0 | File type: PDF | 688 pages

 | Oxford University Press USA

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||2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.| Chronicling A Herculean Task|By John D. Cofield|"Herculean Task" is an overused phrase, but there is really no other way to describe the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary. Conceived in the nineteenth century, labored over by the most diligent and conscientious men and women imaginable over decades, published gradually with the greatest of care, unceasingly updated and| ||"Dictionaries are never 'finished', but merely bow to publishers artificial, if commercially necessary, deadlines. The OED is no exception, but Gilliver provides a peerless progress report. It is to his credit that for all the inescapable longueurs

This book tells the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century to the present. The author, uniquely among historians of the OED, is also a practising lexicographer with nearly thirty years' experience of working on the Dictionary. He has drawn on a wide range of sources--including previously unexamined archival material and eyewitness testimony--to create a detailed history of the project. The book explores the cu...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary   |  Peter Gilliver. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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