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Originally Posted by Taylor514ce
Simon Winchester.
The Professor and the Madman
A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the
Oxford English Dictionary
Sorry, I maybe mixed threads, but I saw you talking about the OED elsewhere.
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@ Taylor : that sounds fascinating ! too bad i didn't see this post before the end of the fictionwise sale, but i *do* have enough micro credit (or whatever it's called) to get it, thanks to the sale...
have you read
"The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary" by the same man ? it looks good too, but it might be sort of the same thing as the other one... plus, for the moment it's only available in mobi format...