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Chasing the sun : dictionary makers and the dictionaries they made / Jonathon Green

This scholarly history of lexicography traces the development of dictionaries and the lives of the word collectors behind them. It examines the role of the lexicographer as an influential arbiter of language throughout history.

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Encyclopaedias and dictionaries/Reference books/Books/Publications/Communication/Sociology/Social sciences/Civilisation English language -- History/Germanic languages/Indo-European languages English language -- Usage/English language -- Grammar/English language -- Composition and exercises/English language -- Rhetoric/Germanic languages/Indo-European languages Language and languages -- Etymology/Communication/Sociology/Social sciences/Civilisation Latin literature

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