Sarah Ogilvie

The Dictionary People

The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, word by word."--Provided by publisher.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House Children's Books
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 175mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 704g
• ISBN-13: 9780593536407
• ISBN-10: 0593536401
• Artikelnr.: 67367797

Autorenporträt

SARAH OGILVIE is a linguist, lexicographer, writer, and technologist. Raised in Australia, she has lived and worked in both the United States, teaching at Stanford, and Britain. She currently teaches at Oxford University, where she develops and directs a new degree integrating humanities with technology.

Rezensionen

Sarah Ogilvie has brought to centre stage a gallery of remarkable characters quite as astonishing, hilarious, terrifying and beguiling as any found in Dickens. The "ordinary" people who helped create the Oxford English Dictionary reveal themselves to be anything but ordinary. At the back of it all we are reminded that words themselves are not abstract units of meaning, they are every bit as alive, elusive and enchanting as the people who devote themselves to their study. The Dictionary People serves also, incidentally, as a marvellous record of the incidentals, the daily details, manners and modes of 19th century life. An unmissable wonderful achievement. Stephen Fry