Chasing the Sun: Dictionary-makers and the Dictionaries They Made

Chasing the Sun: Dictionary-makers and the Dictionaries They Made
ISBN-10
0224040103
ISBN-13
9780224040105
Series
Chasing the Sun
Pages
423
Language
English
Published
1996
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Author
Jonathon Green

Description

In this book Jonathon Green traces the history of the dictionary from the first lexicon created in 2340 B.C. to the pinnacle of the Oxford English Dictionary and today's computer-generated successors of that great masterwork.

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