Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/28

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Subject: Re: [Leica] And now, for something completely different....Off topic puppies!
From: Guy Bennett <guybnt@idt.net>
Date: Fri, 28 May 1999 09:15:36 -0700

>have you read the book- "The professor and the madman"
>about the enormaous task of compiling the Oxford English Dictionary?
>Fascinating!

dan,

don't know it, but have read a book with apparent similiarities: Henri
Meschonnic's 'Des mots et des mondes: Dictionnaires, encyclopédies,
grammaires, nomenclatures' (Paris: Hatier, 1991). it deals with the nature
of such works and the (occasionally incredible) undertakings of those who
dare to compile them!

i post this rather than send it directly to you, as there may be other
word-stuck individuals among the various leicaites who peruse these
bootless missives...

guy