Table of contents for The meaning of everything : the story of the Oxford English dictionary / Simon Winchester.


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Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations 
Prologue

1. Taking the Measure of It All

2. The Construction of the Pigeon-Holes

3. The General Officer Commanding

4. Battling with the Undertow

5. Pushing through the Untrodden Forest

6. So Heavily Goes the Chariot

7. The Hermit and the Murderer
      -and Hereward Thimbleby Price

8. From Take to Turn-down
      -and then, Triumphal Valediction Epilogue: And Always Beginning Again 

Bibliography and Further Reading 

Index

Picture Acknowledgements





Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication: Oxford English dictionary, English language Lexicography History 19th century, Murray, James Augustus Henry, Sir, 1837-1915, Lexicographers Great Britain Biography, Furnivall, Frederick James, 1825-1910, Coleridge, Herbert, 1830-1861