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The Dictionary People: The unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary

English

By (author): Sarah Ogilvie

**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024**

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'A delight' Katherine Rundell
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'Brilliant' Philippa Perry
'Enthralling' Jeanette Winterson


What do three murderers, Karl Marx's daughter and a vegetarian vicar have in common?
They all helped create the Oxford English Dictionary.

The Oxford English Dictionary has long been associated with elite institutions and Victorian men. But the Dictionary didn't just belong to the experts; it relied on contributions from members of the public. By 1928, its 414,825 entries had been crowdsourced from a surprising and diverse group of people, from astronomers to murderers, naturists, pornographers, suffragists and queer couples.

Lexicographer Sarah Ogilvie dives deep into previously untapped archives to tell a people's history of the OED. Here, she reveals, for the first time, the full story of the making of one of the most famous books in the world - and celebrates the extraordinary efforts of the Dictionary People.

'An astonishing book' Sunday Times

'Utterly fascinating, entertaining, astonishing and as clever as a box of monkeys ... I completely love it' Joanna Lumley

A fascinating and delightful exploration of the Victorian world Wonderful Nicola Shulman, TLS Podcast

** A Financial Times, TLS and Daunt Books Book of the Year **

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Product Details
  • Weight: 271g
  • Dimensions: 129 x 197mm
  • Publication Date: 05 Sep 2024
  • Publisher: Vintage Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781529922578

About Sarah Ogilvie

Sarah Ogilvie teaches at the University of Oxford and specializes in language dictionaries and technology. As a lexicographer she has been an editor at the Oxford English Dictionary and was Chief Editor of Oxford Dictionaries in Australia. As a technologist she has worked in Silicon Valley at Lab 126 Amazon's innovation lab where she was part of the team that developed the Kindle. She originally studied computer science and mathematics before taking her doctorate in Linguistics at the University of Oxford and then taught at Cambridge and Stanford.

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