Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: International Non-Fiction, Language & Reference, Non-Fiction, Adult
ISBN: 9781529922578
Published: October 2024
Imprint: Vintage
Page Extent: 384
Format: Paperback
RRP 295.00

Dictionary People

Sarah Ogilvie

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'Unmissable' Stephen Fry
'A delight' Katherine Rundell
'Illuminating' Susie Dent
'Brilliant' Philippa Perry
'Enthralling' Jeanette Winterson

What do three murderers, Karl Marx's daughter and a vegetarian vicar have in common?
They all helped create the Oxford English Dictionary.

The Oxford English Dictionary has long been associated with elite institutions and Victorian men. But the Dictionary didn't just belong to the experts; it relied on contributions from members of the public. By 1928, its 414,825 entries had been crowdsourced from a surprising and diverse group of people, from astronomers to murderers, naturists,...

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Sarah Ogilvie

Sarah Ogilvie

Sarah Ogilvie teaches at the University of Oxford, and specializes in language, dictionaries, and technology. As a lexicographer she has been an editor at the Oxford English Dictionary and was Chief Editor of Oxford Dictionaries in Australia. As a technologist she has worked in Silicon Valley at Lab 126, Amazon’s innovation lab, where she was part of the team that developed the Kindle. She originally studied computer science and mathematics before taking her doctorate in Linguistics at the University of Oxford, and then taught at Cambridge and Stanford.

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