The Meaning of Everything (Audio)
ISBN:
9780060744038 (0060744030)
Publish date: January 13th 2004
Publisher: HarperAudio
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Biography,
Writing,
History,
Reference,
Humanities,
Language,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Books About Books,
Microhistory
Well this one went downhill.I recommend this book at all solely for its first chapter giving a succinct and entertaining essay on the history of the English language, that's what hooked me into it. I suggest you read that and then put the book back on the store/library shelf. It's not worth taking h...
A MUST for anyone with a love of words. Probably dreadfully dull for others. :P
Fascinating story behind my dream dictionary. The labor it took to create the OED out of whole cloth took multiple lifetimes. This book, while thorough and enjoyable, still leaves much untold. I want more.
A pleasing history of the making of the Oxford English Dictionary by the author of the related The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary, q.v. It used to be that one could get a copy of the Compact OED by joining a book club, and used c...
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