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
Damaris C. (Erinyes) reviewed on + 279 more book reviews
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I have always wondered how words got their spelling and their meaning. Who decided on what was right and what was wrong. This book explains all of that and more. I found it to be extremely compelling. This 'madman' ravaged by our own civil war made a huge contribution to it. Unbelievable. I'd recommend to anyone as curious as I was to the origin of words. Great story. It is hard to get into the first 20 pages after that. Wonderful!
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