Interview: Simon Winchester and Jack Lynch talk about the history of English lexicography and their respective books on the Oxford English Dictionary and Samuel Johnson's dictionary From: Talk of the Nation (NPR) | Date: October 6, 2003| Author: NEAL CONAN | . Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

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10-06-2003

Interview: Simon Winchester and Jack Lynch talk about the history of English lexicography and their respective books on the Oxford English Dictionary and Samuel Johnson's dictionary

Host: NEAL CONAN
Time: 3:00-4:00 PM

NEAL CONAN, host:

This is TALK OF THE NATION. I'm Neal Conan in Washington.

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