Keith Maguire
17 Reads
A very enjoyable book set during the compiling/writing of the Oxford English Dictionary. It's a combination of very enjoyable page-turning read with a critique of the textual-evidence-based nature of the OED and the way that such an approach necessarily misses out on significant parts of the language.
A very enjoyable book set during the compiling/writing of the Oxford English Dictionary. It's a combination of very enjoyable page-turning read with a critique of the textual-evidence-based nature of the OED and the way that such an approach necessarily misses out on significant parts of the language.