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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 — 122,213 ratings — published 1998
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 9,294 ratings — published 2017
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 5,291 ratings — published 2003
The Dictionary of Lost Words (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 193,610 ratings — published 2020
Guilty by Definition (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 11,854 ratings — published 2024
Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography (Paperback)
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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 — 11,811 ratings — published 2011
Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 1,775 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 3.12 — 387 ratings — published 2012
The Broken Teaglass (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.36 — 2,124 ratings — published 2009
The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.35 — 17 ratings — published 2008
The Word Detective: Searching for the Meaning of It All at the Oxford English Dictionary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 475 ratings — published 2016
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 4.08 — 184 ratings — published 1977
A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary (Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching, #14)
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avg rating 3.92 — 236 ratings — published 1894
The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 1,062 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 — 684 ratings — published 2011
A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 1,063 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 — 285 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
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
Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary
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avg rating 3.99 — 271 ratings — published 2025
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 — 2,145 ratings — published 2016
Żeńska końcówka języka (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,167 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 4.45 — 6,274 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 4.22 — 9 ratings — published
The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 1,117 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 — 122 ratings — published 2015
A Dictionary of Scoundrels (The Swifts #1)
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avg rating 4.06 — 7,192 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 — 157 ratings — published
The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 1,666 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 — 172 ratings — published 2017
From Glosses to Dictionaries: The Beginnings of Lexicography (Hardcover)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2019
The Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon (Hardcover)
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avg rating 5.00 — 2 ratings — published
A Sanskrit English Dictionary 2005 Deluxe Edition: Etymologically and Philologically Arranged with Special Reference to Cognate Indo-European Languages, (English and Sanskrit Edition)
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avg rating 4.61 — 31 ratings — published 1898
A Glossary of the Old Northumbrian Gospels: Lindisfarne Gospels or Durham Book (Paperback)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 1894
Broadening Perspectives in the History of Dictionaries and Word Studies (Paperback)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Preface to a Dictionary of the English Language (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.58 — 127 ratings — published 1755
Words of the World: A Global History of the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 33 ratings — published 2012
The Oxford Handbook of Lexicography (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 4 ratings — published 2016
The Cambridge World History of Lexicography (Hardcover)
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avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published
“I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are sons of heaven.”
― The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
― The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
“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
