Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary by K. M. Elisabeth Murray

Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary

James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary

K. M. Elisabeth Murray

400 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction reference informative lighthearted medium-paced
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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 provid...

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