"The Word Detective," by John Simpson. Basic Books, 384 pages. $27.99. Years ago I bought the Compact Oxford English Dictionary, the edition that reproduced four of the OED’s pages on each of its ...
THERE is something comforting in a dictionary: right angles, a pleasing heft, reassuringly rigid covers. A new one is tight, a bright sheaf of discoveries yet to be made; an old one is a musty but ...
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