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The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary Cover Image Book Book

The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary

Winchester, Simon (author.).

Summary: The compilation of the OED, begun in 1857, was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected, the overseeing committee, led by Professor James Murray, discovered that one man, Dr. W. C. Minor, had submitted more than ten thousand. When the committee insisted on honoring him, a shocking truth came to light: Dr. Minor, an American Civil War veteran, was also an inmate at an asylum for the criminally insane. 

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