READING SUGGESTIONS
For those interested in Lexicography -wordsmiths- I would like to suggest great readings on the subject: --K.M. Elisabeth Murray: "Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary," 1977. --Simon Winchester: "The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary," 2003. --Simon Winchester: "The Professor and the Madman," 1998. --John Willinsky: "The Empire of Words: The Reign of the OED," 1994. --Henry Hitchings: "Defining the World: The Extraordinary Story of Dr. Johnson´s Dictionary," 2005. --Sydney Landau: "Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography," 2001.