Lexicography
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Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat To) the Modern Dictionary
$30.00 Add to cartFrom the author of the New York Times bestseller Word Freak, a vibrant, lively, and illuminating journey through the exotic world of Merriam-Webster, dictionaries, and language, at a time of rapid-fir
- Author: Fatsis, Stefan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0802165826
- Language: English
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Scottish Plant Names: An A to Z
$24.99 Read moreDr Gregory Kenicer brings us a concise but through exploration of plants and their names in the Scots language through the ages. Presented as a dictionary, and covering a vast variety of flower, fungh… [more below]
- Author: Kenicer, Gregory
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: August 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1910877441
- Language: English
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Hardly Harmless Drudgery: A 500-Year Pictorial History of the Lexicographic Geniuses, Sciolists, Plagiarists, and Obsessives Who Defined the Eng
$65.00 Add to cart“A delight”–Booklist
A richly illustrated historical account of English-language dictionaries, and the people who made them, from the dawn of printing to the present day. Dictionaries are repositorie- Author: Garner, Bryan A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1567928072
- Language: English
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All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia
$21.99 Add to cartFrom the “deliriously clever” (Boston Globe) Simon Garfield, New York Times bestselling author of Just My Type, comes the wild and fascinating story of the encyclopedia, from Ancient Greece to the pre
- Author: Garfield, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 0063292300
- Language: English
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All the Knowledge in the World: The Extraordinary History of the Encyclopedia
$29.99 Read moreFrom the “deliriously clever” (Boston Globe) Simon Garfield, New York Times bestselling author of Just My Type, comes the wild and fascinating story of the encyclopedia, from Ancient Greece to the pre
- Author: Garfield, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063292270
- Language: English
