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Month: July 2016

The Word Detective

by John SimpsonJuly 4, 2016August 19, 2016

Word Detective (UK)

My account of my time at the OED is being published in October by Basic Books in the US and by Little Brown in the UK, under the title The Word Detective. 

Click here to see Lara Heimert (Publisher at Basic Books and my US editor) talking about it.

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