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

Reviewed by Joan C. Beal
University of Sheffield
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