The meaning of everything: the story of the Oxford English Dictionary
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Oxford [u.a.]
Oxford Univ. Press
2003
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| Abstract: | Traces the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its earliest inception through its long path to completion, describes the process of creating a dictionary, and includes anecdotes about its creators and their work. |
| Physical Description: | XXV, 260 S. Ill., Kt. |
| ISBN: | 0198607024 |
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| adam_text | Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations xii
Prologue xv
1. Taking the Measure of It All
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
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8.
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Epilogue: And Always Beginning Again
Bibliography and Further leading
Index
Picture Acknowledgements
From the best-selling author of The
Professor and the Madman, The Map
That Changed the World, and
Krakatoa comes a truly wonderful celebra¬
tion of the English language and of its
unrivaled treasure house, the Oxford
English Dictionary.
Writing with marvelous brio, Winchester
first serves up a lightning history of the
English language
so wonderfully unwieldy
homage to the great dictionary makers,
from the irredeemably famous Samuel
Johnson to the short, pale, smug, and
boastful schoolmaster from New Hartford,
Noah Webster. He then turns his un¬
matched talent for storytelling to the mak¬
ing of this most venerable of dictionaries.
In this fast-paced narrative, the reader will
discover lively portraits of such key figures
as the brilliant but tubercular first editor
Herbert Coleridge (grandson of the poet),
the colorful, boisterous Frederick Furnivall
(who left the project in a shambles), and
James Augustus Henry Murray, who spent
a half-century bringing the project to
fruition. Winchester lovingly describes the
nuts-and-bolts of dictionary making
unexpectedly tricky the dictionary entry
for marzipan was, or how fraternity turned
out so much longer and monkey so much
more ancient that anticipated
bondmaid was left out completely, its slips
found lurking under a pile of books long
after the B-volume had gone to press.
We visit the ugly corrugated iron struc¬
ture that Murray grandly dubbed the
Scriptorium
locals called it
legion of volunteers, from Fitzedward Hall,
a bitter hermit obsessively devoted to the
OED, to W C. Minor, whose story is one of
dangerous madness, ineluctable sadness,
and ultimate redemption.
The Meaning of Everything is a scintillating
account of the creation of the greatest mon¬
ument ever erected to a living language.
Simon Winchester s supple, vigorous prose
illuminates this dauntingly ambitious pro¬
ject
grandfather of all word-books, the world s
unrivaled
Simon Winchester is the author of the
best-sellers Krakatoa, The Map That
Changed the World, and The Professor and the
Madman. He was a foreign correspondent
for the Guardian and the Sunday Times and
was based in Belfast, New Delhi, New York,
London, and Hong Kong. Winchester has
written for
Smithsonian, and National Geographic. He
lives in Massachusetts, New York, and the
Western Isles of Scotland.
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