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1) The word detective: searching for the meaning of it all at the Oxford English Dictionary : a memoir
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xvi, 364 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"What do you call the part of a dog's back it can't scratch? Can you drink a glass of balderdash? And if, serendipitously, you find yourself in Serendip, then where exactly are you? The answers to all of these questions can be found in the Oxford English Dictionary, the definitive record of the English language. And there is no better guide to the dictionary's many wonderments, its quirks, and its quiddities than the former chief editor of the OED,...
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