Chasing the sun : dictionary-makers and the dictionaries they made

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Chasing the sun : dictionary-makers and the dictionaries they made

Jonathon Green

Jonathan Cape, 1996

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Bibliography: p. 396-401. - Includes index

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CHASING THE SUN is an immensely readable and fascinating history of the dictionary, of the urge to set knowledge - in the case, words -in order. Jonathan Green traces the story from the first lexicon created in 2340 BC in Sumeria to the pinnacle of the OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY and today's computer-generated successors of that great masterwork. Throughout he tells the story through the lives of the lexicographers themselves, a diverse and fascinating collection of men obsessed with words and language, men who with extraordinary frequency assume a godlike role.

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