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The Meaning Of Everything: The Story Of The Oxford English Dictionary
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The creation of the first Oxford English Dictionary was an extraordinary endeavour, lasting over 70 years. In The Professor and the Madman, Simon Winchester recounted one fascinating episode; in The Meaning of Everything, he tells the whole story of the host of characters who carried out ‘the greatest enterprise of its kind in history’.