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08547cam a2201321 a 4500 001 2FB2A24AAC3311EB98A411E3203FDB2A 003 SILO 005 20210503121523 007 ta 008 980128s1998 nyua b 000 0deng 010 $a 98010204 020 $a 9780060994860 020 $a 006099486X 020 $a 0060839783 020 $a 9780060839789 020 $a 9780060175962 020 $a 0060175966 035 $a (OCoLC)38425992 040 $a DLC $b eng $c DLC $d NOR $d MUQ $d BAKER $d BTCTA $d DST $d YDXCP $d G8V $d KAAUA $d UBC $d ZWZ $d GEBAY $d BDX $d OCLCF $d WIC $d OCL $d OCLCO $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d OCL $d FC@ $d PX0 $d XFF $d DML $d OCLCO $d C@V $d OCLCO $d VGM $d CHILD $d CSA $d CSJ $d TFW $d T7F $d OCLCO $d CS1 $d OCLCO $d TXSVP $d XBE $d RWFNT $d OCLCO $d CNO $d BRL $d CPO $d OCLCO $d CPS $d MCT $d OCLCO $d JDP $d BGU $d OCLCO $d OCL $d CBA $d OCLCO $d TYC $d OCLCO $d OCL $d OCLCA $d OCLCQ $d OCLCO $d CNCHP $d OCL $d IL4J6 $d OCLCO $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PE1617.O94 $b W56 1998 082 00 $a 423/.092 $2 21 100 1 $a Winchester, Simon. 245 14 $a The professor and the madman : $b a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary / $c Simon Winchester. 250 $a 1st ed. 260 $a New York : $b HarperCollins Publishers, $c ©1998. 300 $a xi, 242 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-242). 505 00 $g 11. $t Then only the monuments. $g 2. $t The man who taught Latin to cattle -- $g 3. $t The madness of war -- $g 4. $t Gathering Earth's daughters -- $g 5. $t The big dictionary conceived -- $g 6. $t The scholar in cell block two -- $g 7. $t Entering the lists -- $g 8. $t Annulated, art, brick-tea, buckwheat -- $g 9. $t The meeting of minds -- $g 10. $t The unkindest cut -- $g 11. $t Then only the monuments. 520 $a The creation of the Oxford English Dictionary began in 1857, took seventy years to complete, drew from tens of thousands of brilliant minds, and organized the sprawling language into 414,825 precise definitions. But hidden within the rituals of its creation is a fascinating and mysterious story - a story of two remarkable men whose strange twenty-year relationship lies at the core of this historic undertaking. Professor James Murray, an astonishingly learned former schoolmaster and bank clerk, was the distinguished editor of the OED project. Dr. William Chester Minor, an American surgeon from New Haven, Connecticut, who had served in the Civil War, was one of thousands of contributors who submitted illustrative quotations of words to be used in the dictionary. But Minor was no ordinary contributor. He was remarkably prolific, sending thousands of neat, handwritten quotations from his home in the small village of Crowthorne, fifty miles from Oxford. On numerous occasions Murray invited Minor to visit Oxford and celebrate his work, but Murray's offer was regularly - and mysteriously - refused. Thus the two men, for two decades, maintained a close relationship only through correspondence. Finally, in 1896, after Minor had sent nearly ten thousand definitions to the dictionary but had still never traveled from his home, a puzzled Murray set out to visit him. It was then that Murray finally learned the truth about Minor - that, in addition to being a masterful wordsmith, Minor was also a murderer, clinically insane - and locked up in Broadmoor, England's harshest asylum for criminal lunatics. 630 00 $a Oxford English dictionary. 630 00 $a New English dictionary on historical principles. 600 10 $a Murray, James A. 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