Hardcover • 2016 • English

The Word Detective: Searching for the Meaning of It All at the Oxford English Dictionary

Name: The Word Detective: Searching for the Meaning of It All at the Oxford English Dictionary
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ISBN: 9780465060696

By John Simpson

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About the book

Can you drink a glass of balderdash? What do you call the part of a dog's back it can't scratch? And if, serendipitously, you find yourself in Serendip, then where exactly are you? The answers to all of these questions--and a great many more--can be found in the pages of the Oxford English Dictionary , the definitive record of the English language. And there is no better guide to the dictionary's many wonderments than the former chief editor of the OED , John Simpson. Simpson spent almost fo...Show more

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9780465060696

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2016

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English

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The Word Detective: Searching for the Meaning of It All at the Oxford English Dictionary

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