Author? Author?
We might spend our days on the Net, but we all love books at Oxford Dictionaries Online. Here’s an interactive quiz in honour of World Book Day, which gives a selection of words to be matched up with the authors who invented them. Think that Oscar Wilde coined the word witticism? Click to play and test your knowledge!
All the beautiful book covers used in this quiz were taken from our Oxford World’s Classics series. Explore the rest of the series.
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