Words of the World: A Global History of the Oxford English Dictionary
"This is a beauty of a book" -The Financial Times"A penetrating and brilliantly conceived work that decisively refutes the assumption that Victorian prejudice disposed the original editors of the OED to neglect foreign loanwords and non-British English.  Ogilvie writes with a refreshingly brisk intelligence."                      --Sidney Landau, author of Dictionaries: the Art and                                                                      Craft of Lexicography"Sarah Ogilvie, by forensically examining the OED text, demonstrates convincingly that, as envisaged by James Murray, it was a truly international enterprise, in both its contributors and the World Englishes represented."                                                --Howard Jackson, Emeritus Professor of English                                                     Language & Linguistics, Birmingham City University"Sarah Ogilvie brings a unique conjunction of abilities to this book: deep practical knowledge of OED and its archives, powerful analytical skills, and personal warmth and flair as a storyteller."                    --John Considine, University of Alberta