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8vo pp. 334, "The 'treasure-house of the language,' the Oxford English Dictionary, has inspired its own treasury of books, of which Brewer's is just the latest. The 70-year process of creating the OEDÂ s first edition, chronicled in Simon Winchester's The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary (2003) and Lynda Mugglestone's Lost for?. Seller Inventory # 256215
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Title: Treasure-House of the Language: The Living ...
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr, New Haven
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Book Type: book
About this title
The legendary Oxford English Dictionary today contains over 600,000 words and a staggering 2,500,000 quotations to illuminate the meaning and history of those words. A glorious, bursting treasure-house, the OED serves as a guardian of the literary jewels of the past, a testament to the richness of the English language today, and a guarantor of future understanding of the language. In this book, Charlotte Brewer begins her account of the OED at the point where others have stopped—the publication of the final installment of the first edition in 1928—and carries it through to the metamorphosis of the dictionary into a twenty-first-century electronic medium.
Brewer describes the difficulties of keeping the OED up to date over time and recounts the recurring debates over finances, treatment of contentious words, public vs. scholarly expectations, proper sources of quotations, and changing editorial practices. With humor and empathy, she portrays the predilections and personalities of the editors, publishers, and assistants who undertook the Sisyphean task of keeping apace with the modern explosion of vocabulary. Utilizing rich archives in Oxford as well as new electronic resources, the author uncovers a history no less complex and fascinating than the Oxford English Dictionary itself.
Charlotte Brewer is a fellow of Hertford College, Oxford, and CUF lecturer in English at Oxford University. She has published extensively on topics related to the Oxford English Dictionary. She lives in Oxford, England.
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