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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 123,796 ratings — published 1998
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 9,494 ratings — published 2017
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 5,329 ratings — published 2003
Guilty by Definition (The Clarendon Lexicographers #1)
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avg rating 3.91 — 14,608 ratings — published 2024
The Dictionary of Lost Words (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 200,535 ratings — published 2020
Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography (Volume 0)
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avg rating 4.11 — 36 ratings — published 1984
The Great Passage (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.81 — 11,946 ratings — published 2011
Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 1,779 ratings — published 2008
The Story of Ain't: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.13 — 390 ratings — published 2012
The Broken Teaglass (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.36 — 2,125 ratings — published 2009
The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 17 ratings — published 2008
Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary
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avg rating 3.92 — 462 ratings — published 2025
The Word Detective: Searching for the Meaning of It All at the Oxford English Dictionary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 478 ratings — published 2016
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.23 — 12,856 ratings — published 2011
Biblical Greek Language and Lexicography (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 17 ratings — published 2004
A Handbook of Lexicography: The Theory and Practice of Dictionary-Making (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.00 — 3 ratings — published 1987
Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 185 ratings — published 1977
A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching, #14)
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avg rating 3.93 — 237 ratings — published 1894
The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 1,064 ratings — published 2006
The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster's Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.49 — 689 ratings — published 2011
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 1,065 ratings — published 1926
I Love it When You Talk Retro: Hoochie Coochie, Double Whammy, Drop a Dime, and the Forgotten Origins of American Speech (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.47 — 286 ratings — published 2009
The Oxford History of English Lexicography Volume I General Purpose Dictionaries Volume II Specialized Dictionaries (Textbook Binding)
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avg rating 4.00 — 3 ratings — published 2008
The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.95 — 2,579 ratings — published 2012
Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.31 — 1,038 ratings — published 2003
Annotations in Greek and Latin Texts from Egypt (American Studies in Papyrology)
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avg rating 5.00 — 3 ratings — published 2007
Yes, I Could Care Less: How to Be a Language Snob Without Being a Jerk (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.57 — 284 ratings — published 2013
Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Eezier to Spell (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 639 ratings — published 2025
The Kingdom of Speech (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.57 — 2,545 ratings — published 2016
A Sociolinguistic History of British English Lexicography (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Studien zur Textglossarüberlieferung: Mit Untersuchungen zu den Handschriften St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek 292 und Karlsruhe, Badische Landesbibliothek St. Peter perg. 87 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published 2001
Ilustrowany slownik ortograficzny. Szkola podstawowa (Paperback)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Slownik obrazkowy na co dzien. Polski-rosyjski (Paperback)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Other-Wordly: Words Both Strange and Lovely from Around the World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 2,156 ratings — published 2016
Żeńska końcówka języka (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,216 ratings — published 2023
Slownik wyrazów bliskoznacznych (Polish Edition)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.44 — 6,562 ratings — published 2018
Help! For Writers: 210 Solutions to the Problems Every Writer Faces (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 443 ratings — published 2011
Alphabetical: How Every Letter Tells a Story by Michael Rosen (2016-02-09)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
Hardly Harmless Drudgery: A 500-Year Pictorial History of the Lexicographic Geniuses, Sciolists, Plagiarists, and Obsessives Who Defined the English Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 10 ratings — published
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 1,170 ratings — published 2021
Founding Grammars: How Early America's War over Words Shaped Today's Language (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.68 — 123 ratings — published 2015
A Dictionary of Scoundrels (The Swifts #1)
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avg rating 4.06 — 7,559 ratings — published 2023
Roots of Happiness: 100 Words for Joy and Hope from Britain’s Most-Loved Word Expert (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.33 — 173 ratings — published
The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 1,758 ratings — published 2023
The Oxford University Press: An Informal History (Hardcover)
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avg rating 2.50 — 2 ratings — published 1978
The 2000 Most Frequently Used Igbo Nouns: Save Time By Learning the Most Frequently Used Words First (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
Empire of Words: The Reign of the OED (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 5 ratings — published 1994
The Cabinet of Linguistic Curiosities: A Yearbook of Forgotten Words (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 174 ratings — published 2017
From Glosses to Dictionaries: The Beginnings of Lexicography (Hardcover)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2019
“Words hurt, because they are one of the only socially accepted ways we can attack each other”
― Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
― Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
“When we see men grow old and die at a certain time one after another, from century to century, we laugh at the elixir that promises to prolong life to a thousand years; and with equal justice may the lexicographer be derided, who being able to produce no example of a nation that has preserved their words and phrases from mutability, shall imagine that his dictionary can embalm his language, and secure it from corruption and decay, that it is in his power to change sublunary nature, or clear the world at once from folly, vanity, and affectation.”
― Dictionary Of The English Language
― Dictionary Of The English Language
