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Been looking out for a complete copy of Samuel Johnson's "A Dictionary of the English Language" for a long time but they're very hard to come by and even the facsimile I bought can cost a few hundred. Thankfully I paid a mere .
This is a facsimile published by Times Books in 1983 combining both volumes into a single volume. It's shrunk to the size of a regular hardcover rather than a tall folio.english dictionary
I'm Cory Doctorow, And This Is How I Work
... of room), but I couldn't live without my postal scales and stash of postage (minimising wait-times at the stupid post awful). And my Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary, which I read through an articulated, illuminated circular ... english dictionary
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Oxford English Dictionary
Paul 'scruffy' Martin tells the story of The Oxford English Dictionary. At first, the dictionary was unconnected to Oxford University but was the idea of a s...english dictionary
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