Philologists, pedants and obsessives: how crowd-sourcing created the Oxford English Dictionary

James Henry Augustus Murray in his Scriptorium. Public domain

The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes who Created the Oxford English Dictionary is a celebration of words and word-people: authors, editors, publishers, linguists, lexicographers, philologists, obsessives, pedants. Its author, Sarah Ogilvie, was formerly an Oxford English Dictionary editor and wrote the 2013 book Words of the World: A Global History of the Oxford English Dictionary.

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