Table of Contents

Introduction to the eighth edition
History of the Dictionary
Introduction to the first edition
How to use this work
Quotations
Index

About the Author

Elizabeth Knowles is a historical lexicographer who worked on the 4th edition of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary (1993) and was Editor of the 5th, 6th, and 7th editions of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (1999, 2004, 2009). Her other editorial credits include the Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations (3rd edition, 2007), What They Didn't Say: A Book of Misquotations (2006), and the Little Oxford Dictionary of
Proverbs (2009). She is a contributor to The History of Oxford University Press (2013).

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