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Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary
Caught in the Web of Words James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary
Author: K.M. Elisabeth Murray
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 great lexicographer. It also provides an absorbing account of how the dictionary was written, the personalities of the people worki...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780300089196
ISBN-10: 0300089198
Publication Date: 3/1/2001
Pages: 462
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Publisher: Yale University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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