Writing a War of Words: Andrew Clark and the Search for Meaning in World War One

by Lynda Mugglestone

Writing a War of Words is the first exploration of the war-time quest by Andrew Clark - a writer, historian, and volunteer on the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary - to document changes in the English language from the start of the First World War up to 1919. Clark's unique series of lexical scrapbooks, replete with clippings, annotations, and real-time definitions, reveals a desire to put living language history to the fore, and to create...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198870159
• ISBN13: 9780198870159
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.3"