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050 00 PE1617.O94|bW56 1998
100 1 Winchester, Simon.
245 14 The professor and the madman :|ba tale of murder, insanity,
and the making of the Oxford English dictionary /|cSimon
Winchester.
250 1st ed.
260 New York :|bHarperCollins Publishers,|cc1998.
300 xi, 242 p. :|bill. ;|c22 cm.
504 Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-242)
520 1 "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
600 10 Murray, James Augustus Henry,|cSir,|d1837-1915|xFriends
and associates.
600 10 Minor, William Chester.
630 00 Oxford English dictionary.
630 00 New English dictionary on historical principles.
650 0 English language|xLexicography|xHistory|y19th century.
650 0 Psychiatric hospital patients|zGreat Britain|xBiography.
650 0 Encyclopedias and dictionaries|xHistory and criticism.
650 0 Lexicographers|zGreat Britain|xBiography.
650 0 English language|xEtymology.
651 0 United States|xHistory|yCivil War, 1861-1865|xVeterans
|xBiography.
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