Jane Austen and the Oxford English Dictionary
During the period in which the first edition of the OED was compiled, from the 1860s to 1928, it was unexceptionable to turn to great writers as a source of information on the history and development of the English language. In the words of W. D. Whitney, the distinguished Sanskritist and editor of...
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2010
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