Examining the OED

 

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Berg, Donna L. (1993) A Guide to the Oxford English Dictionary [The Essential Companion and User’s Guide]. Oxford: University Press.

 

Brewer, Charlotte (2007) Treasure-house of the Language: the Living OED. New Haven and London: Yale University Press.

 

Mugglestone, Lynda ed. (2000) Lexicography and the ‘OED’. Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest. Oxford: Oxford University Press [12 chapters by 12 authors].

 

Mugglestone, Lynda (2007) '"Decent Reticence": Coarseness, Contraception, and the First Edition of the OED', in : Dictionaries. Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America. 1-22.

 

 

Murray, K. M. E.  (1977) Caught in the Web of Words: James A. H. Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary.  New Haven: Yale University Press.

 

Pinnavaia, Laura (2001) The Italian Borrowings in the Oxford English Dictionary. A Lexicographical, Linguistic and Cultural Analysis. Roma: Bulzoni.

 

Silva, Penny (2005) ‘Johnson and the OED’, in: International Journal of Lexicography Vol. 18: 231-242.

 

Willinsky, John (1994) Empire of Words. The Reign of the OED. Princeton: University Press.

 

Winchester, Simon (1998) The Surgeon of Crowthorne. A Tale of Murder, Madness and the ‘Oxford English Dictionary’. London: Viking/Penguin Books. [published in the US under the title The Professor and the Madman New York: HarperCollins, (1998)].

 

Winchester, Simon  (2003) The Meaning of Everything. The Story of the ‘Oxford English Dictionary’. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 

 

 


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