Empire of words : the reign of the OED
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Empire of words : the reign of the OED
Princeton University Press, c1994
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Bibliography: p. [239]-249
Includes index
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Challenging the authority of the "Oxford English Dictionary", this study reveals many of the dictionary's inherent prejudices and questions the assumptions behind its continuous revision. It describes how judgemental the task of editing a major dictionary can be.
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