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050	0	0	_aPE1617.O94 _bW558 2004
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100	1		_aWinchester, Simon _eauthor. _91052813
245	1	4	_aThe meaning of everything : _bthe story of the Oxford English Dictionary / _cSimon Winchester.
264		1	_aOxford ; _aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c2004.
300			_axxvii, 260 pages : _billustrations, portraits ; _c21 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 251-253) and index.
505	0	0	_gPt. 1. _tElements of communication -- _gCh. 1. _tHuman communication : what and why -- _gCh. 2. _tPerception, the self, and communication -- _gCh. 3. _tLanguage -- _gCh. 4. _tListening -- _gCh. 5. _tNonverbal communication -- _gPt. 2. _tInterpersonal communication -- _gCh. 6. _tUnderstanding interpersonal relationships -- _gCh. 7. _tImproving interpersonal relationships -- _gPt. 3. _tCommunication in groups -- _gCh. 8. _tThe nature of groups -- _gCh. 9. _tSolving problems in groups -- _gPt. 4. _tPublic communication -- _gCh. 10. _tChoosing and developing a topic -- _gCh. 11. _tOrganization and support -- _gCh. 12. _tPresenting your message -- _gCh. 13. _tInformative speaking -- _gCh. 14. _tPersuasive speaking.
520	1		_a"From the best-selling author of The Professor and the Madman, The Map That Changed the World, and Krakatoa comes a truly wonderful celebration of the English language and of its unrivaled treasure house, the Oxford English Dictionary. Writing with marvelous brio, Winchester first serves up a lightning history of the English language -- "so vast, so sprawling, so wonderfully unwieldy"--And pays homage to the great dictionary makers, from "the irredeemably famous" Samuel Johnson to the "short, pale, smug, and boastful" schoolmaster from New Hartford, Noah Webster. He then turns his unmatched talent for storytelling to the making of this most venerable of dictionaries. In this fast-paced narrative, the reader will discover lively portraits of such key figures as the brilliant but tubercular first editor Herbert Coleridge (grandson of the poet), the colorful, boisterous Frederick Furnivall (who left the project in a shambles), and James Augustus Henry Murray, who spent a half-century bringing the project to fruition. Winchester lovingly describes the nuts-and-bolts of dictionary making -- how unexpectedly tricky the dictionary entry for marzipan was, or how fraternity turned out so much longer and monkey so much more ancient that anticipated -- and how bondmaid was left out completely, its slips found lurking under a pile of books long after the B-volume had gone to press."
520	8		_a"We visit the ugly corrugated iron structure that Murray grandly dubbed the Scriptorium -- the Scrippy or the Shed, as locals called it -- and meet some of the legion of volunteers, from Fitzedward Hall, a bitter hermit obsessively devoted to the OED, to W.C. Minor, whose story is one of dangerous madness, ineluctable sadness, and ultimate redemption. The Meaning of Everything is a scintillating account of the creation of the greatest monument ever erected to a living language. Simon Winchester's supple, vigorous prose illuminates this dauntingly ambitious project -- a seventy-year odyssey to create the grandfather of all word-books, the world's unrivaled uber-dictionary. Book jacket."--Jacket.
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600	1	0	_aFurnivall, Frederick James, _d1825-1910 _9421150
600	1	0	_aColeridge, Herbert, _d1830-1861 _9421151
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650		0	_aLexicographers _zGreat Britain _vBiography _9657988
650		0	_aLexicology _xHistory _9658183
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