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Peter Gilliver

The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Peter Gilliver

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December 2016, no. 387
Bruce Moore reviews 'The Making of the Oxford English Dictionary' by Peter Gilliver

There have been popular accounts of the making of the Oxford English Dictionary, especially Simon Winchester’s The Surgeon of Crowthorne (1998) and The Meaning of Everything (2003), and there have been more scholarly accounts, such as ...

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