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The Dictionary People The Unsung Heroes Who Created The Oxford English Dictionary Sarah Ogilvie

  • SKU: BELL-54291820
The Dictionary People The Unsung Heroes Who Created The Oxford English Dictionary Sarah Ogilvie
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Publisher: Random House
File Extension: EPUB
File size: 6.9 MB
Pages: 384
Author: Sarah Ogilvie
ISBN: 9781529195767, 9781784744939, 178474493X, 1529195764
Language: English
Year: 2023

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The Dictionary People The Unsung Heroes Who Created The Oxford English Dictionary Sarah Ogilvie by Sarah Ogilvie 9781529195767, 9781784744939, 178474493X, 1529195764 instant download after payment.

What do three murderers, Karl Marx's daughter and a vegetarian vicar have in common?
They all helped create the Oxford English Dictionary.
The Oxford English Dictionary has long been associated with elite institutions and Victorian men; its longest-serving editor, James Murray, devoted 36 years to the project, as far as the letter T. But the Dictionary didn't just belong to the experts; it relied on contributions from members of the public. By the time it was finished in 1928 its 414,825 entries had been crowdsourced from a surprising and diverse group of people, from archaeologists and astronomers to murderers, naturists, novelists, pornographers, queer couples, suffragists, vicars and vegetarians.
Lexicographer Sarah Ogilvie dives deep into previously untapped archives to tell a people's history of the OED. She traces the lives of thousands of contributors who defined the English language, from the eccentric autodidacts to the family groups who made...

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