Word: oxfords
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Other Arabs have grudgingly acknowledged Egypt's leadership. They send their sons to learn in Cairo, the great teaching center of the Middle East. Al Azhar, founded in the 10th century, is older than Oxford, Cambridge or the Sorbonne; Cairo University, with 95,000 students, is not only the biggest university in the Middle East but one of the largest in the world. Cairo's four universities, indeed, turn out more graduates than the impoverished Egyptian economy can absorb, and more than 1 million of them now work, often in key positions, in other Arab countries. The remittances they send...
CAUGHT IN THE WEB OF WORDS: JAMES A.H. MURRAY AND THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY by K.M. Elisabeth Murray Yale University Press; 386 pages...
With its splendid hoard of half a million words, the Oxford English Dictionary is the central bank of the language -a trove of Latinate abstractions. Old Frisian or Old French oddments, fubsy eloquences of Middle English and exotic intrusions from the Arabic. It contains a million and a half quotations to show the historical progress of language, the way its vocabularies have stirred, matured in meaning and eventually decayed. But the logomaniac's great joy in the O.E.D. is to wander through it looking for the glint of old coins: sippet, maumetry, floscule, gimmer, the wonderfully dark deathbird...
...mere ten years of his life to the great work. Had he known what it would cost him, Murray might never have started. Always pressed for money, he had eleven children to support, along with his revolving cast of helpers. He endured constant sniping and professional infighting at the Oxford University Press...
...second down-zoning petition is to rezone the Mellon, Oxford and Wendell Street area which is also owned by Harvard...