The Meaning of Everything
The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
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Product details:
- Edition number New ed
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication 23 September 2004
- ISBN 9780192805768
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 196x129x15 mm
- Weight 307 g
- Language English
- Illustrations numerous halftones 0
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Short description:
The creation of the first Oxford English Dictionary was an extraordinary endeavour, lasting over 70 years. In The Professor and the Madman, Simon Winchester recounted one fascinating episode; in The Meaning of Everything, he tells the whole story of the host of characters who carried out 'the greatest enterprise of its kind in history'.
MoreLong description:
'The greatest enterprise of its kind in history,' was the verdict of British prime minister Stanley Baldwin in June 1928 when The Oxford English Dictionary was finally published. With its 15,490 pages and nearly two million quotations, it was indeed a monumental achievement, gleaned from the efforts of hundreds of ordinary and extraordinary people who made it their mission to catalogue the English language in its entirety.
In The Meaning of Everything, Simon Winchester celebrates this remarkable feat, and the fascinating characters who played such a vital part in its execution, from the colourful Frederick Furnivall, cheerful promoter of an all-female sculling crew, to James Murray, self-educated son of a draper, who spent half a century guiding the project towards fruition. Along the way we learn which dictionary editor became the inspiration for Kenneth Grahame's Ratty in The Wind in the
Willows, and why Tolkien found it so hard to define 'walrus'.
Written by the bestselling author of The Professor and teh Madman and The Map That Changed the World, The Meaning of Everything is an enthralling account of the creation of the world's greatest dictionary.
teeming with knowledge and alive with insights. Winchester handles humor and awe with modesty and cunning. His prose is supremely readable.
Table of Contents:
Prologue
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Taking the Measure of It All
The Construction of the Pigeonholes
The General Officer Commanding
Battling the Undertow
Pushing through the Untrodden Forest
So Heavily Goes the Chariot
The Hermit and the Murderer - and Hereward Thimbleby Price
From Take to Turndown - and then, Triumphal Valediction
Epilogue
Bibliography
