Murray, K.M. Elisabeth

Caught in the web of words : James A.H. Murray and the Oxford English dictionary / by K.M. Elisabeth Murray ; with a pref. by R.W. Burchfield. - New Haven, Conn. : Yale University Press, 1977. - 386 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.

Includes inde.

'Round O and crooked S' : the formative years--The great learning period : schoolmaster and citizen--The discovery of Anglo-Saxon--New life in London.

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Murray, James Augustus Henry, Sir, 1837-1915.


New English dictionary on historical principles.
Oxford English dictionary.


English language--Lexicography--History--19th century.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries--History and criticism.
Lexicographers--Biography.--Great Britain