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9780300089196

Caught in the Web of Words : James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary

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  • ISBN13:

    9780300089196

  • ISBN10:

    0300089198

  • Edition: Reprint
  • Format: Trade Paper
  • Copyright: 2001-02-08
  • Publisher: Yale University Press

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Summary

This unique & celebrated biography describes how a largely self-educated boy from a small village in Scotland entered the world of scholarship & became a great lexicographer & the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Table of Contents

Illustrations
vii
Preface ix
Acknowledgements xii
Prologue 1(2)
`Round O and Crooked S': The Formative Years
3(24)
The Great Learning Period: Schoolmaster and Citizen
27(18)
The Discovery of Anglo-Saxon
45(15)
New Life in London
60(27)
Furnivall's Henchman
87(14)
Mill Hill: The Arcadian Years
101(32)
The Web Is Spun: Abortive Negotiations with Macmillan
133(15)
The Fly Is Caught: Negotiations with the Delegates of the Oxford University Press
148(23)
`Sundry Shocks and Serious Jars': The Raw Materials for the Dictionary
171(18)
Hoc Unum Facio: Solving the Technical Problems
189(16)
The Triple Nightmare: Space, Time, and Money
205(10)
Editor and Publisher: Confrontation with Benjamin Jowett
215(31)
The Bete Noire of the Press
246(16)
Shearing Samson's Locks: The Pace of Production Must Be Increased
262(18)
`Not the Least of the Glories of the University of Oxford'
280(23)
The Sands Run Out
303(11)
`The Dic and the Little Dics': The Man and His Family
314(28)
Appendix I 342(4)
Appendix II 346(5)
Abbreviations Used in Notes 351(4)
Notes 355(23)
Index 378

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