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The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder,Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary (Paperback)
$15.09 - Save $0.79 (4%) - RRP $15.88 Free delivery worldwide (to United States and
all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for The Surgeon of CrowthorneThe making of the "Oxford English Dictionary" was a monumental 50 year task requiring thousands of volunteers. One of the keenest volunteers was a W C Minor who astonished everyone by refusing to come to Oxford to receive his congratulations. In the end, James Murray, the "OED's" editor, went to Crowthorne in Berkshire to meet him.
Full description- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
- Published: 09 January 2000
- Format: Paperback 224 pages
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- Categories: Biography: General | Biography: Historical, Political & Military | Linguistics | Lexicography
- ISBN 13: 9780140271287 ISBN 10: 0140271287
- Sales rank: 10,264
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Full description for The Surgeon of Crowthorne
The making of the "Oxford English Dictionary" was a monumental 50 year task requiring thousands of volunteers. One of the keenest volunteers was a W C Minor who astonished everyone by refusing to come to Oxford to receive his congratulations. In the end, James Murray, the "OED's" editor, went to Crowthorne in Berkshire to meet him. What he found was incredible - Minor was a millionaire American civil war surgeon turned lunatic, imprisoned in Broadmoor Asylum for murder and yet who dedicated his entire cell-bound life to work on the English language.
