Fixing Babel: An Historical Anthology of Applied English Lexicography by Rebecca Shapiro

Fixing Babel: An Historical Anthology of Applied English Lexicography

Rebecca Shapiro

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We all think we know what a dictionary is for and how to use one, so most of us skip the first pages--the front matter--and go right to the words we wish to look up. Yet dictionary users have not always known how English "works" and my book reprod...

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