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| Genre/forme : | Biography |
|---|---|
| Personne nommée : | James Augustus Henry Murray, Sir; Frederick James Furnivall; Herbert Coleridge |
| Type d’ouvrage : | Biographie, Ressource Internet |
| Format : | Livre, Ressource Internet |
| Tous les auteurs / collaborateurs : |
Simon Winchester |
| ISBN : | 0198607024 9780198607021 |
| Numéro OCLC : | 52830480 |
| Description : | xxv, 260 p. : ill., ports. ; 23 cm. |
| Contenu : | 1. Taking the Measure of It All -- 2. The Construction of the Pigeon-Holes -- 3. The General Officer Commanding -- 4. Battling with the Undertow -- 5. Pushing through the Untrodden Forest -- 6. So Heavily Goes the Chariot -- 7. The Hermit and the Murderer -and Hereward Thimbleby Price -- 8. From Take to Turn-down -and then, Triumphal Valediction -- Epilogue: And Always Beginning Again. |
| Responsabilité : | Simon Winchester. |
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Résumé :
Traces the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its earliest inception through its long path to completion, describes the process of creating a dictionary, and includes anecdotes about its creators and their work.
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The madman, revisited. . .
Journalist Simon Winchester returns to the subject of his bestseller, The Professor and the Madman, to further expound on the making of the English language’s definitive dictionary. The story begins with a lucid journey through the history of the English language, setting the foundation for a group of...
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Journalist Simon Winchester returns to the subject of his bestseller, The Professor and the Madman, to further expound on the making of the English language’s definitive dictionary. The story begins with a lucid journey through the history of the English language, setting the foundation for a group of intellectuals in 1860, who decide to undertake the monumentous task of correcting the attempts of previous lexicographers. The project continues over the next 70 years, with an intriguing cast of colorful editors, publishers, and hundreds of volunteer readers who mailed in quotations from books on half-sheets of writing paper. The “slips” came in at the rate of 1,000 per day, sorted by assistants and even the children of one editor (to earn pocket money). Winchester’s rich, dexterous prose details the daily workings of the project, providing personal accounts of key participants, including some of the volunteers: the “Madman,” American soldier Dr. W. C. Minor, confined to a lunatic asylum for murder, and Fitzedward Hall, a self-taught philologist-turned-hermit in self-exile after a heated row with an academic rival.
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- Oxford English dictionary.
- English language -- Lexicography -- History -- 19th century.
- Murray, James Augustus Henry, -- Sir, -- 1837-1915.
- Lexicographers -- Great Britain -- Biography.
- Furnivall, Frederick James, -- 1825-1910.
- Coleridge, Herbert, -- 1830-1861.
- Oxford English Dictionary.
- Anglais (Langue) -- Lexicographie -- Histoire.
- Oxford English dictionary (anoniem)
- Engels.
- Woordenboeken.
- Geschichte.
- Lexikographie.
- Englisch.
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