The Dictionary People av Sarah Ogilvie

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<p><b>**LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2024**</b><br><br><b>'Enthralling and exuberant ... Here is a wonder-book for word-lovers' Jeanette Winterson<br><br>'</b><b>A lively, entertaining, and illuminating read. I loved it</b>' <b>Susie Dent</b><br><br><i>What do three murderers, Karl Marx's daughter and a vegetarian vicar have in common?</i><br><i>They all helped create the Oxford English Dictionary.</i><br><br>The Oxford English Dictionary has long been associated with elite institutions and Victorian men. But the Dictionary didn't just belong to the experts; it relied on contributions from members of the public. By 1928, its 414,825 entries had been crowdsourced from a surprising and diverse group of people, from astronomers to murderers, naturists, pornographers, suffragists and queer couples.<br><br>Lexicographer Sarah Ogilvie dives deep into previously untapped archives to tell a people's history of the OED. Here, she reveals, for the first time, the full story o