What is the most famous english language book published in 1884?”
Looking at the Wikipedia entry for books first published in 1884, I was originally going to say that the most famous of all of the English language books is undoubtedly the Oxford English Dictionary, of which the first edition was published on February 1, 1884. “The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is a dictionary published by the Oxford University Press (OUP), and is generally regarded as the most comprehensive and scholarly dictionary of the English language. The OED is the starting point for much scholarly work regarding words in English. Its choice of the order in which to list variant spellings of headwords is influential on written English in many countries. On February 1, 1884, 23 years after Coleridge’s sample pages, the first portion, or fascicle, of the Dictionary was published. The full title had now become A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles; Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by The Philological Society, and the 352-page volume, covering words from A to
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