Description - Wordwatching: Breaking into the Dictionary: It's His Word Against Theirs by Alex Horne
Alex Horne loves words. He loves them so much, in fact, that he decided to invent his own A- to create a brand new verbal concept and successfully implant it into the English language, and the Oxford English Dictionary. But breaking into the dictionary was going to take more than just a gentle word in the ear of the OED's editor, as Alex soon discovered. Evidence was required A- Alex needed proof that his word was in print and used by more people than just him and his mum. He needed, to use the dictionary's word, a 'corpus' of examples, so a corpus he resolved to create. And he gave himself a thousand days in which to do it. This is the story of what happened next. Did Alex get a word in the OED? What is a pratdigger? Are you already using one of Alex's words without realising it? You won't regret spending your hard-earned honk on this hugely entertaining book full of wordy trivia and funny tales of verbal invention.
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