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Interview: Simon Winchester and Jack Lynch talk about the history of English lexicography and their respective books on the Oxford English Dictionary and Samuel Johnson's dictionary

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From: Talk of the Nation (NPR)
Date: 20031006
Author:NEAL CONAN

NEAL CONAN
Talk of the Nation (NPR)
10-06-2003
Interview: Simon Winchester and Jack Lynch talk about the history of English lexicography and their respective books on the Oxford English Dictionary and Samuel Johnson's dictionary

Host: NEAL CONAN
Time: 3:00-4:00 PM

NEAL CONAN, host:

This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan in Washington.

For anyone who's ever written a school essay, played a game of Scrabble or needed a heavy book to dry flowers, it's hard to imagine a world without dictionaries. But the English language existed and evolved for centuries without a reference book to guide its ...

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