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Simon Winchester
336 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)
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"The greatest enterprise of its kind in history," was the verdict of British prime minister Stanley Baldwin in June 1928 when The Oxford English Dictionary was finally published. With its 15,490 pages and nearly two million quotations, it was inde...
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Simon Winchester
336 pages • first pub 2003 (editions)
ISBN/UID: None
Format: Not specified
Language: English
Publisher: Not specified
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"The greatest enterprise of its kind in history," was the verdict of British prime minister Stanley Baldwin in June 1928 when The Oxford English Dictionary was finally published. With its 15,490 pages and nearly two million quotations, it was inde...