This book tells the history of the Oxford English Dictionary from its beginnings in the middle of the nineteenth century to the present. Drawing extensively on archival and other sources, it traces the conception of the idea of the Dictionary in the 1850s right up to the launching of the Dictionary as an online database in 2000 and beyond.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of illustrations
List of capsules
1: Beginnings
2: Furnivall's Dictionary: 1861-75
Interlude. The work of Furnivall's sub-editors
3: Manoeuvres: 1876-9
4: The road to Ant: 1879-84
5: The Dictionary divides: 1884-7
6: Storm and stress: 1888-97
Interlude. Method: From quotation slip to published entry
Peter Gilliver has been an editor of the Oxford English Dictionary since 1987, and is now one of the Dictionary's most experienced lexicographers; he has also contributed to several other dictionaries published by OUP. In addition to his lexicographical work, he has been writing and speaking about the history of the OED for over fifteen years.
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