tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6647858.post112098797765483631..comments2024-03-22T16:44:22.235-04:00Comments on 外 not: Interesting "Frog in a Well" entry on a Chinese wartime dictionaryJonathan Bendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10697405682873882601noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6647858.post-1121468119969408512005-07-15T18:55:00.000-04:002005-07-15T18:55:00.000-04:00No, but I read (most of) Jonathon Green's Chasing ...No, but I read (most of) Jonathon Green's <I>Chasing the Sun: Dictionary Makers and the Dictionaries They Made</I>. Green has an interesting section on James Murray.Jonathan Bendahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10697405682873882601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6647858.post-1121466548068192492005-07-15T18:29:00.000-04:002005-07-15T18:29:00.000-04:00I discovered dictionaries when I did an edition of...I discovered dictionaries when I did an edition of a classic work of literature that required alot of glosses of hard-to-find words and expressions. Until then, I did not find dictionaries that interesting. Have you read "The Professor and the Madman" by Simon Winchester, about the Oxford Dictionary?Chris Conwayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09733033227237922906noreply@blogger.com