book lover's day august 9, Welcome to the OxfordWords blog! Here you’ll find articles about words, language, and dictionaries, plus English grammar and usage tips, interactive features, games, competitions, and more…Book Lover’s Day: Writing for grown-up people: George Eliot and the Oxford English DictionaryIn celebration of Book Lover’s Day, we asked four of our dictionary editors to tell us about their favourite writers. Each of the writers featured is in the top 1000 cited sources in the Oxford English Dictionary. If you subscribe to the OED Online (many UK libraries offer free access if you provide your library [...]
Posted on: 8 August 2012 | Posted by: Owen Goodyear | Comments: 0 | Categories: Dictionaries and lexicography, Word origins | Tags: author, Book lover's day, citations, coinage, dialect, English in use, George Eliot, idioms, literature, Middlemarch, novels, Oxford English Dictionary, phrases, Victorian, word originsook Lover’s Day: ‘Swimming in language’: Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, and the Oxford English Dictionary
In celebration of Book Lover’s Day, we asked four of our dictionary editors to tell us about their favourite writers. Each of the writers featured is in the top 1000 cited sources in the Oxford English Dictionary. If you subscribe to the OED Online (many UK libraries offer free access if you provide your library [...]
Posted on: 8 August 2012 | Posted by: Allison Wright | Comments: 0 | Categories: Dictionaries and lexicography, Word origins | Tags: author, Book lover's day, citations, coinage, English usage, literature, modernism, novels, Oxford English Dictionary, phrases, stream of conciousness, Virginia Woolf, word originsBook Lover’s Day: Aldous Huxley and the Oxford English Dictionary
In celebration of Book Lover’s Day, we asked four of our dictionary editors to tell us about their favourite writers. Each of the writers featured is in the top 1000 cited sources in the Oxford English Dictionary. If you subscribe to the OED Online (many UK libraries offer free access if you provide your library [...]
Posted on: 8 August 2012 | Posted by: Robert Hughes | Comments: 0 | Categories: Dictionaries and lexicography, Word origins | Tags: Aldous Huxley, author, Book lover's day, citations, coinage, Oxford English Dictionary, word origins
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