The Meaning of Everything

Summary

The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary is a 2003 book by Simon Winchester. It concerns the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary under the editorship of James Murray and others, one aspect of which Winchester had previously written about in 1998 in The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Love of Words.

The Meaning of Everything
AuthorSimon Winchester
LanguageEnglish
PublisherOxford University Press
Publication date
October 14, 2004
Pages288
ISBN978-0-19-517500-4

Sources edit

  • Buckley, William F. Jr. (12 October 2003). "You Could Look It Up". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
  • Poole, David (15 November 2003). "Words' worth". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 13 November 2017.

External links edit

  • Presentation by Winchester on The Meaning of Everything, November 20, 2003, C-SPAN