The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary

The Meaning of Everything

The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary

By
Simon Winchester
Simon Winchester
2003 • 292 pages

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774 books

Paper Book

Pierke
Pierke
The Keys of Egypt
Becoming Winston Churchill: The Untold Story of Young Winston and His American Mentor
September in the Rain: The Life of Nelson Riddle
No More Champagne: Churchill and His Money
The mistresses of Cliveden

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1,113 books

Prologue

Pierke
Pierke
C. S. Lewis - A Life
Cocktail Hour Under the Tree of Forgetfulness
Cahokia: Ancient America's Great City on the Mississippi
Becoming Queen
Daughter of Empire: My Life as a Mountbatten
Custer's Trials

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114 books

Authors Language Literature

Pierke
Pierke
The Boy Who Loved Books: A Memoir
Daphne
C. S. Lewis - A Life
The End of Your Life Book Club
The Dangerous Edge of Things
The Teaching and Learning of Arabic in Early Modern Europe
The Invention of Murder: How the Victorians Revelled in Death and Detection and Created Modern Crime

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771 books

Uncat

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Sarah
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
Atlas Shrugged
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass: Lavishly Illustrated with Interactive Elements
Dragon Ball Z, Vol. 1
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster
Stone of Farewell
BattleTech Legends: Wolf Pack

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388 books

Miscellaneous Lore Or Memoir

Cherryplums
Katy
Literary Rogues
From Girls to Grrrlz
The Complete Buddy Bradley Stories from Hate Comics, Vol. 1: Buddy Does Seattle, 1990-1994
Funny Ladies: The New Yorker's Greatest Women Cartoonists And Their Cartoons
The Dictionary of Imaginary Places: The Newly Updated and Expanded Classic
I Can't Keep My Own Secrets: Six-Word Memoirs by Teens Famous & Obscure
FOUND Polaroids

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2,746 books

Owned

Daren
Daren
Two Under the Indian Sun
Sailing with Mohammed
Beowulf
Slowly Down the Ganges
One Lonely Night
Killer Mine
The Snake

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345 books

Uk

Daren
Daren
Infiltrators: Guns Drugs Deception And Murder Duty Calls
Love & Peace with Melody Paradise
Vurt
Falling Out of Cars
Man and Boy
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary

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1,372 books

Uk Author

Daren
Daren
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Real "Bravo Two Zero"
City of Djinns
In Xanadu: A Quest
The Age of Kali
Danziger's Travels: Beyond Forbidden Frontiers
The Baker's Boy

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476 books

Bio Memoir

Daren
Daren
Soldier Five: The Real Truth about the Bravo Two Zero Mission
Paddy O'Brien: Whistle While You Work
Legs On Everest : The Full Story Of His Most Remarkable Adventure Yet
Red Dust: A Path Through China
The Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl
My Life
Autobiography of a geisha

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2,141 books

Non Fiction

Daren
Daren
Days and Nights in Calcutta
The Real "Bravo Two Zero"
Soldier Five: The Real Truth about the Bravo Two Zero Mission
In Xanadu: A Quest
Danziger's Travels: Beyond Forbidden Frontiers
Infiltrators: Guns Drugs Deception And Murder Duty Calls
Paddy O'Brien: Whistle While You Work

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525 books

History

Daren
Daren
In Xanadu: A Quest
The Age of Kali
Autobiography of a geisha
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
Guests of Ayatollah : The First Battle in the West's War on Militant Islam
Fragmentation of the Middle East: The Last Thirty Years
Russia: A Journey to the Heart of a Land and its People

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236 books

Owned

phonetic
Sarah
While Canada Slept: How We Lost Our Place in the World
Watchmen
The Sign of Four
Going Postal
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
Slaughterhouse 5

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8 books

Language

phonetic
Sarah
The Mother Tongue
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
Shakespeare: The World as Stage
Unfortunate English
Learning Language and Loving It: A Guide to Promoting Children's Social, Language and Literacy Development
Watch Your Tongue: What Our Everyday Sayings and Idioms Figuratively Mean

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161 books

Linguistics

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Spiritomb
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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5 books

Lexicography

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Spiritomb
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