Caught in the Web of Words
K.M. Elisabeth Murray
Yale University Press, 2001
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A biography of James Murray, the first editor of the "Oxford English Dictionary". It provides an account of his life, along with how the dictionary was written, the personalities of the people working on it and the endless difficulties that nearly led to the whole enterprise being abandoned.
- ISBN-13
- 9780300089196
- ISBN-10
- 0300089198
- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Year
- 2001
- Publication date
- 2001-03-01
- Pages
- 400
- Dimensions
- 134x203x29
- Weight
- 452