The Dictionary People

The Dictionary PeopleBy: Sarah Ogilvie A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A history and celebration of the many far flung volunteers who helped define the English language, word by word. Enthralling and exuberant, Sarah Ogilvie tells the surprising story of the making of the OED. Philologists, fantasists, crackpots, criminals, career spinsters, suffragists, and Australians: here is a wonder book for word lovers. Jeanette

even as her older sister

and together they explore everything from moon rocks to butterflies to a giant dinosaur skeleton

✏學習領域：自然與生活科技、社會

Odd Henderson

Chief Justice Rehnquist draws the reader intimately into a nineteenth-century event that offers valuable history lessons for us in the twenty-first

the curtain closes on the epic romance of Alexander Hamilton and Elizabeth Schuyler

Emily must come to terms with her duty to her family

Suspecting the murder may be rooted in ethnic prejudice

proving his leadership skills just means shaking monster hands

a defiant outcast and artist of incomparable authenticity who

Weak states pose problems just as confounding as strong ones

and the birds of prey that patrol the skies