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| #39394 in Books | Basic Books | 2016-10-25 | 2016-10-25 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.50 x1.25 x6.50l,.0 | File type: PDF | 384 pages | Basic Books||17 of 17 people found the following review helpful.| A Career And A Life Devoted To Words|By John D. Cofield|The Oxford English Dictionary is one of those towering achievements of scholarship that leaves us all in awe: twenty massive volumes in the original edition, plus supplements; a century's worth of painstaking research that is ongoing and (we trust) never ending. If you've read Simon Winchester's The Professor And The Ma||Bryan A. Garner, author of Garner's Modern English Usage and chief editor of Black's Law Dictionary|John Simpson has written a humane, poignant, wry account of his years at work on the Oxford English Dictionary. Word-lovers will r
Can you drink a glass of balderdash? What do you call the part of a dog's back it can't scratch? And if, serendipitously, you find yourself in Serendip, then where exactly are you?
The answers to all of these questions—and a great many more—can be found in the pages of the Oxford English Dictionary, the definitive record of the English language. And there is no better guide to the dictionary's many wonderments than the former chief editor ...
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