Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages

Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages

By
Ammon Shea
Ammon Shea
2008 • 246 pages

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161 books

Linguistics

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How Dead Languages Work
Forbidden Words
Grammar and Gender
Language Myths
What the F: What Swearing Reveals About Our Language, Our Brains, and Ourselves
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States

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37 books

English Language

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The Elements of Eloquence: How to Turn the Perfect English Phrase
Made in America: An Informal History of the English Language in the United States
The Fight for English: How language pundits ate, shot, and left
Word on the Street: Debunking the Myth of a Pure Standard English
What's Your Pronoun?: Beyond He and She
The Wordhord
The Mother Tongue

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5 books

Lexicography

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The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages
The Dictionary of Lost Words

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27 books

Books

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Read Dangerously
Wide as the Waters: The Story of the English Bible and the Revolution it Inspired
Dark Archives
Purity in Print
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession
The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu
BiblioTech