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

James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary

K.M. Elisabeth Murray with Robert W. Burchfield

386 pages • first pub 1977 (view 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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