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I chose this book since so many of my friends highly recommended it, but to be honest I was a little hesitant. I couldn't figure out what could be so interesting about the compilation of a dictionary.
Simon Winchester, the author and also narrator of the audiobook, chooses just the right details. As you read or listen you drawn into the complexity involved in the Oxford English Dictionary 's making. You learn why it was needed, you learn how it differed from previous dictionaries, you learn abou ...more
Simon Winchester, the author and also narrator of the audiobook, chooses just the right details. As you read or listen you drawn into the complexity involved in the Oxford English Dictionary 's making. You learn why it was needed, you learn how it differed from previous dictionaries, you learn abou ...more
The compiling of the Oxford English Dictionary was a mammoth undertaking. It required a small army of volunteer researchers and decades and decades to complete this definitive study of the etymological development and definition of every word in the English language in the late 19th century. Curiously, among those volunteers was one man, remarkable for both the amount of scholarly research into archaic texts he contributed and for his personal circumstances, the inmate of an asylum for the crimi
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I liked this book, but it didn't feel as informative as I hoped it would be when I picked it up. It was very interesting, though, on a topic I never thought I'd be interested in, but I was.
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