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From the best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa comes a truly wonderful celebration of the English language and of its unrivaled treasure house, the Oxford English Dictionary.<br> <br> Writing with marvelous brio, Winchester first serves up a lightning history of the English language--"so vast, so sprawling, so wonderfully unwieldy"--and pays homage to the great dictionary makers, from "the irredeemably famous" Samuel Johnson to the "sho
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- Author
- Winchester, Simon
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780198607021
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Language Learning, Memoir, Literary Criticism
- Rating
- 3.99 / 5 (3,342 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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