• Caught in the Web of Words: James A.H.Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford Paperbacks)

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Caught in the Web of WordsJames A.H.Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford Paperbacks)

by K. M. Elisabeth Murray

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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 lexicographer greater by far than Dr. Johnson. It also provides an absorbing account of how the dictionary was written, the personalities of the people working on it, and the endless difficulties which nearly led to the whole enterprise being abandoned.

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Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines, Lexicography
Format: Paperback
Published: 1979
Pages: 386
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780192812650

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