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Lynda Mugglestone. Lost for Words: The Hidden History of the Oxford English Dictionary. New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 2005. Pp. xxv+273. $30.00.

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Lynda Mugglestone. Lost for Words: The Hidden History of the Oxford English Dictionary. New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press, 2005. Pp. xxv+273. $30.00.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2012

Richard W. Bailey
Richard W. Bailey
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University of Michigan
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Journal of British Studies , Volume 45 , Issue 1 , January 2006 , pp. 205 - 207
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Copyright © North American Conference of British Studies 2006

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1 Winchester, Stephen, The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Love of Words (Harmondsworth: Viking, 1998)Google Scholar, The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the “Oxford English Dictionary” (New York: HarperCollins, 1998)Google Scholar, and The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the “Oxford English Dictionary” (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003)Google Scholar.