The Man Who Made Dictionaries
The Man Who Made
Dictionaries
The Man Who Made
Dictionaries
The Story of the Oxfo rd Advanc ed Lear ner's Dic tio nary
Albert Sydney Hornby (1898-1978)
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A Passion for Language
The Oxfo rd Advanc ed Lear ner's Dic tio nary could be called the father of foreign learners' dictionaries.
For 60 years it has organized a sprawling language into simple definitions that learners of English can understand. It was, and still is, a breath of fresh air.
Behind the dictionary's creation is a fascinating story of a `simple teacher' with a brilliant mind, whose passion for language teaching changed the way the world learns English.
A. S. Hornby was the man who made dictionaries. And his story began here, in Japan . . .
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Albert Sydney Hornby (1898-1978)
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The nickname `ASH' was given to him by his second wife Marion in 1942 and it stayed with him all his life.
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