The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
- ISBN-10
- 0192805762
- ISBN-13
- 9780192805768
- Series
- The Meaning of Everything
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 260
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Author
- Simon Winchester
Description
"We visit the ugly corrugated iron structure that Murray grandly dubbed the Scriptorium -- the Scrippy or the Shed, as locals called it -- and meet some of the 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 monument ever erected to a living language. Simon Winchester's supple, vigorous prose illuminates this dauntingly ambitious project -- a seventy-year odyssey to create the grandfather of all word-books, the world's unrivaled uber-dictionary. Book jacket."--Jacket.
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