Caught in the Web of Words - K.M. Elisabeth Murray
James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary
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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 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 working on it, and the endless difficulties that nearly led to the whole enterprise being abandoned. "It is a magnificent story of a magnificent man, one of the finest biogra...
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2001 Uitgever: Yale University Press 462 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0300089198 ISBN-13: 9780300089196Helaas, laatste exemplaar van deze editie is recent verkocht!