Title: Fascinating Subject
Product review: This is clearly a fascinating subject, and Winchester does not disappoint in covering this grand endeavor. He starts by showing us the untidy history of the English language and the first attempts to catalogue its words. Then the challenge of the OED is underway -- to fully document the words of the language in its entirety. From the master lexicographer, James Murray, to the diverse and msyterious characters scribbling down millions of quotes, Winchester shows how this monumental task came to succeed over a period of decades. My only complaint was that the book was not longer, and did not go more into the modern reworkings of the OED, although it is touched upon in the epilogue.
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