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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