Gresham College Lectures

The Meaning of Everything: The history of the Oxford English Dictionary

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The legendary Oxford English Dictionary today contains over 600,000 words and a staggering 2,500,000 illustrative quotations. A glorious, bursting treasure-house, the OED serves as a guardian of the literary jewels of the past,...

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