It's the late-nineteenth century. Professor James Murray is leading a literary project that draws from the knowledge, expertise and time of tens of thousands of volunteers. Operating in Oxford, ...

Now that I've read Sarah Ogilvie's surprising and delightful new book " The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary," I can imagine James Murray, the venerable ...

After graduate school, I treated myself to a full set — that's 20 very large and heavy volumes — of the Oxford English Dictionary for my home office. It was a very on-brand purchase for me, and also a ...

Two decades ago, Oxford University Press invited David Foster Wallace, Zadie Smith, Simon Winchester and five other distinguished writers, as well as one bookish journalist, to contribute usage notes ...