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Lexicography Books

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary
Guilty by Definition (The Clarendon Lexicographers #1)
The Dictionary of Lost Words
Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography (Volume 0)
The Great Passage
Reading the OED: One Man, One Year, 21,730 Pages
The Story of Ain't: America, Its Language, and the Most Controversial Dictionary Ever Published
The Broken Teaglass
The Oxford Guide to Practical Lexicography
Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary
The Word Detective: Searching for the Meaning of It All at the Oxford English Dictionary
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
Biblical Greek Language and Lexicography
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The Professor and the Madman by Simon WinchesterThe Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip WilliamsWord by Word by Kory StamperUnabridged by Stefan FatsisThe Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester
Dictionary History
18 books — 3 voters
The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose BierceThe Superior Person's Book of Words by Peter BowlerThe Highly Selective Dictionary for the Extraordinarily Literate by Eugene EhrlichThe Highly Selective Thesaurus for the Extraordinarily Literate by Eugene EhrlichThe Etymologicon by Mark Forsyth
Lexicographer's Stacks
21 books — 2 voters

Course in General Linguistics by Ferdinand de SaussureThe Language Instinct by Steven PinkerAn Introduction to Language by Victoria A. FromkinThe Study of Language by George YuleMetaphors We Live By by George Lakoff
Best Books about Linguistics
256 books — 224 voters
When Liberty Enslaves by Jerry AvetaMerriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary by Merriam-WebsterThe Oxford English Dictionary by John Andrew SimpsonHope in the Valley by Penelope BourdillonOxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary by A.S. Hornby
Dictionaries
395 books — 76 voters

Eats, Shoots & Leaves by Lynne TrussThe Mother Tongue by Bill BrysonThe Professor and the Madman by Simon WinchesterBecause Internet by Gretchen McCullochThe Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.
Best Popular Language Books on Goodreads
181 books — 37 voters

Quotes Tagged “Lexicography”

Kory Stamper
“ Words hurt, because they are one of the only socially accepted ways we can attack each other ”
― Kory Stamper, Word by Word: The Secret Life of Dictionaries
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Simon Winchester
“ I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of the earth, and that things are sons of heaven. ”
― Simon Winchester, The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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Videos Tagged “Lexicography”

Simon Winchester on his book The Meaning of Everything
Simon Winchester on his book The Meaning of Everything