Lost for Words

Lost for Words

The Hidden History of the Oxford English Dictionary

by Lynda Mugglestone, Professor of the History of English Lynda Mugglestone

273 pages· 2005· ISBN 9780300106992
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Examines the hidden history through which the Oxford English Dictionary came into being in a study that traces the personal battles involved in chronicling an ever-changing language.

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