how crowd-sourcing created the Oxford English Dictionary

  • Written by: Stuart Kells, Adjunct Professor, College of Arts, Social Sciences and Commerce, La Trobe University
how crowd-sourcing created the Oxford English DictionaryJames 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...

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