Empire of Words
Princeton University Press eBooksPublished 1 January 1995
John Willinsky
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Challenging the authority of the Oxford English Dictionary, this study reveals many of the dictionary's inherent prejudices and questions the assumptions behind its continuous revision. It describes how judgemental the task of editing a major dictionary can be.
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