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CHASING THE SUN is an immensely readable and fascinating history of the dictionary, of the urge to set knowledge - in the case, words -in order. Jonathan Green traces the story from the first lexicon created in 2340 BC in Sumeria to the pinnacle of the OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY and today's computer-generated successors of that great masterwork. Throughout he tells the story through the lives of the lexicographers themselves, a diverse and fascinating collection of men obsessed with words and language, men who with extraordinary frequency assume a godlike role.
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Jonathon Green is England's leading lexicographer of slang and jargon. Among his own dictionaries are the Macmillan Dictionary of Contemproary Slang, The Slang Thesaurus, Neologisms: New Words since 1960, Slang Down the Ages: The Historical Development of Slang and the Dictionary of Jargon. He also broadcasts regularly on language topics. Among his other books are three oral histories, many dictionaries of quotations and an encyclopedia of censorship.
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