The making of the Oxford English dictionary /
Peter Gilliver tells the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century to the present. Drawing extensively on archival and other sources, he traces the conception of the idea of the Dictionary in the 1850s right up to the launching of the Dictio...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2016.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Peter Gilliver tells the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century to the present. Drawing extensively on archival and other sources, he traces the conception of the idea of the Dictionary in the 1850s right up to the launching of the Dictionary as an online database in 2000 and beyond. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 625 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 591-604). |
| ISBN: | 9780191826092 019182609X 9780191009686 0191009687 0199283621 9780199283620 |