PE1617.O94.M84 2005

It's been terribly busy tonight at the Doe Reference Desk, and in my neverending helpfulness, this turned up in a search--an author named Mugglestone. A hidden history of the OED? More like a hidden history of (not?) Hogwarts!!

Title Lost for words : the hidden history of the Oxford English dictionary / Lynda Mugglestone.
Author Mugglestone, Lynda.
Place/Publisher New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press,
Date c2005.
Description xxi, 273 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. [222]-266) and index.
Subject Headings Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- History and criticism.
English language -- Lexicography.
English language -- Etymology.
Oxford English dictionary.
Electronic Access Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip055/2004029344.html
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