The Dictionary People
- Publisher : Penguin Random House
- Publishing year : September 2023
- Binding : Paperback
- ISBN : 9781784744946
- Imprint : Chatto & Windus
- Age Group : Adult
- Language : English
The people's history of the first great crowdsourcing experiment of the Victorian age: the Oxford English Dictionary Wh ...
The people's history of the first great crowdsourcing experiment of the Victorian age: the Oxford English Dictionary
What do three murderers, Karl Marx's daughter and a vegetarian vicar have in common?
They all helped create the Oxford English Dictionary.
The Oxford English Dictionary has long been associated with elite institutions and Victorian men; its longest-serving editor, James Murray, devoted 36 years to the project, as far as the letter T. But the Dictionary didn't just belong to the experts; it relied on contributions from members of the public. By the time it was finished in 1928 its 414,825 entries had been crowdsourced from a surprising and diverse group of people, from archaeologists and astronomers to murderers, naturists, novelists, pornographers, queer couples, suffragists, vicars and vegetarians.
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