The Meaning of Everything
- The Meaning of Everything
"The Meaning of Everything" 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 "The Surgeon of Crowthorne".
Sources
* Winchester, Simon, "The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary", Oxford University Press, 2003, ISBN 0-19-860702-4 (hardback).
* Winchester, Simon, "The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary", Oxford University Press, 2004, ISBN 0-19-517500-X (paperback).
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