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

Name: The Dictionary People The Unsung Heroes Who Created The Oxford English Dictionary Sarah Ogilvie
SKU: BELL-59938094
Price: 31.00 USD
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Rating: 4.7 (56 reviews)

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The Dictionary People The Unsung Heroes Who Created The Oxford English Dictionary Sarah Ogilvie instant download after payment.

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

File Extension: EPUB

File size: 4.92 MB

Author: Sarah Ogilvie

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 instant download after payment.

A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, word by word.
“Enthralling and exuberant, Sarah Ogilvie tells the surprising story of the making of the OED. Philologists, fantasists, crackpots, criminals, career spinsters, suffragists, and Australians: here is a wonder book for word lovers.” —Jeanette Winterson, author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
The Oxford English Dictionary is one of mankind’s greatest achievements, and yet, curiously, its creators are almost never considered. Who were the people behind this unprecedented book? As Sarah Ogilvie reveals, they include three murderers, a collector of pornography, the daughter of Karl Marx, a president of Yale, a radical suffragette, a vicar who was later found dead in the cupboard of his chapel, an inventor of the first American subway, a female anti-slavery activist in Philadelphia . . . and thousands of...