By Jonathon Green
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What follows is a history of lexicography, the making of dictionaries, and some of the people who made them - from the earliest such word books, 2,500 years before Christ, through to the present day. It is not an academic history, although it has drawn on the work of many academic metalexicographers, but an attempt to offer an accessible study of an area of writing - the nodal point, as it were of linguistics and literature - that has all too often been overlooked. --- excerpt from book's Preface Read more
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