THE DICTIONARY PEOPLE: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary
by Sarah Ogilvie (Chatto &Windus, $40)
"Murray and his team worked out of a garden shed, wrapping their legs in newspapers to keep warm.
There are books full of words about all kinds of things, then there are books full of words about other words: grammar books, style manuals, thesauruses and dictionaries. Among English dictionaries, one rules them all: thethe only dictionary universally recognised by its abbreviation, the Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Collins, Webster, Longman.
