Review published in:
Historiographia Linguistica
Vol. 36:1 (2009) ► pp. 163–167
Book review

Treasure-house of the Language: The Living OED. By Charlotte Brewer

Charlotte Brewer. Treasure-house of the Language: The Living OED
New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2007. xiv, 334 pp. ISBN 0-300-124295 £25.00

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| University of Sheffield
Published online: 06 April 2009
https://doi.org/10.1075/hl.36.1.11bea
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