Chasing the sun
dictionary makers and the dictionaries they made
by Jonathon Green
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When James Murray, the editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, went to visit one of his most indefatigable contributors at what Murray assumed to be a country house address, he discovered that the elusive man was in fact an inmate of the Bradmoor asylum. Throughout time, word collectors have proven an unusual breed, and their stories fill Chasing the Sun, Jonathon Green's scholarly and immensely readable history of lexicography. Contrary to Samuel Johnson's famous.
Description of the lexicographer as no more than a "harmless drudge," Green celebrates the "drudge triumphant"; as interpreter and arbiter of language itself, the dictionary maker here proves to be closer to deity than to drudge.
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Chasing the Sun: Dictionary Makers & the Dicionaries They Made
September 2000, Diane Pub Co
Hardcover
in English
0788194739 9780788194733
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Chasing the sun: dictionary makers and the dictionaries they made
1996, Henry Holt
in English
- 1st American ed.
0805034668 9780805034660
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Chasing the sun: dictionary-makers and the dictionaries they made
1996, Jonathan Cape
in English
0224040103 9780224040105
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [479]-483) and index.
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