Caught in the Web of Words: James A. H. Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary by K. M. Elisabeth Murray
Caught in the Web of Words: James A. H. Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary
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K. M. Elisabeth Murray
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Caught in the Web of Words: James A. H. Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary

James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary

K. M. Elisabeth Murray

386 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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This unique and celebrated biography describes how a largely self-educated boy from a small village in Scotland entered the world of scholarship and became the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, and a lexicographer greater by far than ...

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