Chasing the Sun: Dictionary-makers and the Dictionaries They Made

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Jonathan Cape, 1996 - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 423 pages
In this book Jonathon Green traces the history of the dictionary from the first lexicon created in 2340 B.C. to the pinnacle of the Oxford English Dictionary and today's computer-generated successors of that great masterwork.

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Preface
11
Putting It in Order
55
CHAPTER THREE The Move from Latin
76
Copyright

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