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How to build a dictionary
A new book identifies the army of amateurs, eccentrics and criminals who created the Oxford English Dictionary.
ByNew Times,
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Read all the latest reviews from New Statesman writers of biographies and memoirs.
A new book identifies the army of amateurs, eccentrics and criminals who created the Oxford English Dictionary.
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