num_pages: 400
description: This unique and celebrated biography describes how a largely self-educated boy from a small village in Scotland entered the world of scholarship &amp; became the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, &amp; a lexicographer greater by far than Dr Johnson. It also provides an absorbing account of how the dictionary was written, the personalities of the people working on it &amp; the endless difficulties which nearly led to the whole enterprise being abandoned.
language: English
title: Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary
titlecomplete: Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary
genres: Biography, Language, Dictionaries, History, Scotland, Linguistics, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Books About Books
ratings_count: 171
places: United Kingdom
publisher: Yale University Press