The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary. Sarah Ogilvie
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ISBN: 9780593536407 | 384 pages | 10 Mb
- The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
- Sarah Ogilvie
- Page: 384
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- ISBN: 9780593536407
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, word by word. “Enthralling and exuberant, Sarah Ogilvie tells the surprising story of the making of the OED. Philologists, fantasists, crackpots, criminals, career spinsters, suffragists, and Australians: here is a wonder book for word lovers.” —Jeanette Winterson, author of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit The Oxford English Dictionary is one of mankind’s greatest achievements, and yet, curiously, its creators are almost never considered. Who were the people behind this unprecedented book? As Sarah Ogilvie reveals, they include three murderers, a collector of pornography, the daughter of Karl Marx, a president of Yale, a radical suffragette, a vicar who was later found dead in the cupboard of his chapel, an inventor of the first American subway, a female anti-slavery activist in Philadelphia . . . and thousands of others. Of deep transgenerational and broad appeal, a thrilling literary detective story that, for the first time, unravels the mystery of the endlessly fascinating contributors the world over who, for over seventy years, helped to codify the way we read and write and speak. It was the greatest crowdsourcing endeavor in human history, the Wikipedia of its time. The Dictionary People is a celebration of words, language, and people, whose eccentricities and obsessions, triumphs, and failures enriched the English language.
The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created
A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, word by word The Oxford English Dictionary is one of
THE DICTIONARY PEOPLE: The Unsung Heroes Who
It was the greatest crowdsourcing endeavor in human history, the Wikipedia of its time. The Dictionary People is a celebration of words, language, and people,
The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created
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Subtitle The unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary. Sarah Ogilvie teaches at the University of Oxford, and specializes in language,
The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created
A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, word by word. · “Enthralling and exuberant, Sarah Ogilvie
The Unsung Heroes Who Created The Oxford English Dictionary
In a time before the internet, the compilation of the Oxford English Dictionary was the Wickipedia of its day, crowdsourcing its
The unsung heroes who created the Oxford English
Lexicographer Sarah Ogilvie discovered a previously untapped archive of people who helped create the Oxford English Dictionary,
The Dictionary People: The unsung heroes who created
Lexicographer Sarah Ogilvie dives deep into previously untapped archives to tell a people's history of the OED. She traces the lives of thousands of
The Dictionary People: The unsung heroes who created
Lexicographer Sarah Ogilvie dives deep into previously untapped archives to tell a people's history of the OED. She traces the lives of thousands of