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Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary

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This unique and celebrated biography describes how a largely self-educated boy from a small village in Scotland entered the world of scholarship and became the first editor of the "Oxford English Dictionary". 26 illustrations.

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Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary 2001, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT

ISBN-13: 9780300089196

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