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- Title
- Lost For Words
- Weight
- 800
- EAN
- 9780300106992
- ISBN-10
- 0300106998
- Date of Publication
- 20050510
- Place of Publication
- United States
- Book Series
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- Genre
- 2AB|CBD|CFM|DSB|HBT
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- Pagination
- 304 Pages, 8 B-w Illus.
- Dimensions
- 249 X 164 X 32
- ISBN
- 9780300106992
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Type
- Study Guide
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Lost for Words: the Hidden History of the Oxford English Dictionary
- Item Height
- 244 mm
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Subject
- Literature, Writing & Reading, Education, History
- Item Weight
- 684 g
- Item Width
- 166 mm
- Number of Pages
- 304 Pages
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The untold story of the complex word battles fought by the creators of the first Oxford English Dictionary. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) holds a cherished position in English literary culture. The story behind the creation of what is indisputably the greatest dictionary in the language has become a popular fascination. This book looks at the history of the great first edition of 1928, and at the men (and occasionally women) who distilled words and usages from centuries of English writing and through an act of intellectual alchemy captured the spirit of a civilization. The task of the dictionary was to bear full and impartial witness to the language it recorded. But behind the immaculate typography of the finished text, the proofs tell a very different story. This vast archive, unexamined until now, reveals the arguments and controversies over meanings, definitions, and pronunciation, and which words and senses were acceptable-and which were not. Lost for Words examinesthe hidden history by which the great dictionary came into being, tracing-through letters and archives-the personal battles involved in charting a constantly changing language. Then as now, lexicographers reveal themselves vulnerable to the prejudices of their own linguistic preferences and to the influence of contemporary social history.
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Yale University Press
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9780300106992
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Number of Pages
304 Pages
Publication Name
Lost for Words: the Hidden History of the Oxford English Dictionary
Language
English
Subject
Literature, Writing & Reading, Education, History
Publication Year
2005
Type
Study Guide
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
244 mm
Item Weight
684 g
Item Width
166 mm
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United States
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