Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/05/28
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>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