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Series
Language
English
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Esme Nicoll's love of words began underneath her father's desk inside the Scriptorium, a garden shed where a team of lexicographers and assistants fashioned the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary. One day, a slip falls from a Scriptorium desk and lands in Esme's lap. Believing it to be discarded, Esme pockets the slip and stores it in a wooden chest. As she grows, Esme continues to collect words and slowly begins to understand that the...
2) Ball of fire
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When a group of lexicographers realize they need to hear how real people talk, they end up helping a nightclub performer avoid the police.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Have you ever tried to define the word "is?" Do you have strong feelings about the word (and, yes, it is a word) "irregardless?" Did you know that OMG was first used in 1917, in a letter to Winston Churchill? These are the questions that keep lexicographers up at night. While most of us might take dictionaries for granted, the process of writing dictionaries is in fact as lively and dynamic as language itself. Kory Stamper cracks open the complex,...
5) The word detective: searching for the meaning of it all at the Oxford English Dictionary : a memoir
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A brilliant and deeply humane expedition through the world of words, The Word Detective will delight and inspire any lover of language.
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Gretel, a lexicographer by trade, grew up on a houseboat with her mother, wandering the canals of Oxford and speaking a private language of their own invention. Her mother disappeared when Gretel was a teen, abandoning her to foster care, and Gretel has tried to move on, spending her days updating dictionary entries. When her mother phones, Gretel will have to recover buried memories of her final, fateful winter on the canals. A runaway boy had found...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Peter Winceworth, a disaffected Victorian lexicographer, inserts false entries into a dictionary - violating and subverting the dictionary's authority - in an attempt to assert some sense of individual purpose and artistic freedom. In the present day, Mallory, a young overworked and underpaid intern employed by the dictionary's publishing house, is tasked with uncovering these entries before the work is digitized. As the novel progresses and their...
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