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* Winchester, Simon. The Meaning of Everything: the Story of the Oxford English Dictionary.(Book Review)(Brief Article)
Oct. 2003. 304p. illus. index. Oxford, $25 (0-19-860702-4). 423.
The story of the making of the Oxford English Dictionary has been burnished into legend over the years, at least among librarians and linguists. In The Professor and the Madman (1998), Winchester examined the strange case of one of the most prolific contributors to the first edition of the OED--one W. C, Minor, an American who sent most of his quotation slips from an insane asylum. Now, Winchester takes on the dictionary's whole history, from the first attempts to document the English language in the seventeenth century, the founding of the Philological Society in Oxford in 1842, and the start of work on the dictionary in 1860; to the completion of the ...
- The New Oxford English Dictionary project. (Special Section: Standard...
- Magazine article from: Technical Communication Fawcett, Heather August 1, 1993 700+ words
...Canada, joined forces with Oxford University Press in Oxford, England, to computerize the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). The New Oxford English Dictionary Project was funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada...
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- Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA) Kanaley, Reid February 27, 2007 700+ words
...the Online Etymology Dictionary and the Compact Oxford English Dictionary. http://www.onelook.com/ ___ OED...definitive definitions in English come from the Oxford English Dictionary, or OED. The project was begun in 1857, but...
- The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English...
- Magazine article from: ETC.: A Review of General Semantics Levinson, Martin H. July 1, 2004 700+ words
...The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. In 1928, after 70 years long years of labor, The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) made its premiere appearance in twelve...
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- The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary.(Book review)
- Magazine article from: MBR Bookwatch Kaveny, Philip February 1, 2007 700+ words
...Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary Peter Gilver, Jeremy...Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary from cover to cover in...second edition of The Oxford English Dictionary Online (which we are...
- Oxford English Dictionary steps into new era with on-line edition.(Scene)
- Newspaper article from: The Boston Herald Herbert, Rosemary March 24, 2000 700+ words
...Online Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary," also known as the...complete printing is the "Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition." It...Online Edition of The Oxford English Dictionary, Boston-area publications...
- A supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary: volume IV, Se-Z.
- Magazine article from: The New Leader Simon, John December 1, 1986 700+ words
A Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary: Volume IV, Se-Z Edited...comprehensive and incisive as the Oxford English Dictionary (its abbreviation, OED...raised against "the great Oxford English Dictionary,' to use the Homeric...
- OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY NOW AVAILABLE ONLINE.(Technology Information)
- Newspaper article from: Online Newsletter April 1, 2000 700+ words
The 'Oxford English Dictionary' has been the undisputed...current printed edition, the 'Oxford English Dictionary [Second Edition]' consists...S. and Canada, contact: Oxford English Dictionary Online, Great Clarendon Street...
