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Thirteen Ghosts (also known as 13 Ghosts and stylized as THIR13EN Ghosts) is a 2001 supernatural horror film directed by Steve Beck in his directorial debut. A remake of the 1960 film 13 Ghosts by William Castle, [2] the film stars Tony Shalhoub, Embeth Davidtz, Matthew Lillard, Shannon Elizabeth, Alec Roberts, Rah Digga, and F. Murray Abraham.
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house. The dictionary, which published its first edition in 1884, traces the historical development of the English language, providing a comprehensive resource to ...
13 Ghosts is a 1960 American supernatural horror film produced and directed by William Castle, written by Robb White and starring Rosemary DeCamp, Margaret Hamilton, Charles Herbert, Martin Milner, Jo Morrow, John van Dreelen, and Donald Woods. [3]
The Oxford Dictionary of English (ODE) is a single-volume English dictionary published by Oxford University Press, first published in 1998 as The New Oxford Dictionary of English (NODE). The word "new" was dropped from the title with the Second Edition in 2003. [ 1 ]
Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary, 4 vols, 1972–1986; The Spoken Word, 1981; The English Language, 1985; Studies in Lexicography, 1987; Unlocking the English Language, 1989; The Cambridge History of the English Language, Vol. 5: English in Britain and Overseas, 1994; Editor, Fowler's Modern English Usage, Revised Edition, 1998
Chief editors of the OED [1]; Name Dates of chief editorship Notes Herbert Coleridge: 1858–61: Preliminary work. Died in office. Frederick J. Furnivall
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary is a 2003 book by Simon Winchester.It concerns the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary under the editorship of James Murray and others, one aspect of which Winchester had previously written about in 1998 in The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Love of Words.
The book examines the volunteer contributors who responded to public appeals by the Oxford English Dictionary for words. After finding address books that had belonged to editor James Murray in the basement archive of the Oxford University Press , Ogilvie conducted research into the identities of the contributors.