The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Book Type: Paperback
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Genre: Biographies & Memoirs
Book Type: Paperback
MP P. (misslisslee) reviewed on + 43 more book reviews
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An excellent book focusing on one amateur contributor to the OED and through that decidedly different lens (the man was a paranoid schizophrenic) telling also the larger tale of how the dictionary was originally compiled. I found it to be highly interesting and an easy read -
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