James Augustus Henry Murray, the Scottish lexicographer and philologist, was the primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary from 1879 until his death. Here, in its original form as part of TUP’s history series, is his 1900 lecture on the the evolution of English lexicography.
‘For, the English Dictionary, like the English Constitution, is the creation of no one man, and of no one age; it is a growth that has slowly developed itself adown the ages.’
Murray’s lecture was the ninth in the Romanes Lecture series.
The Romanes Lecture (1900): The Evolution of English Lexicography
James A.H. Murray
ISBN: 052134350
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