The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary / Simon Winchester. [print]
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TextPublication details: New York : HarperPerennial, (c)1999.Edition: first Harperperennial editionDescription: xiii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
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- Murray, James A. H. (James Augustus Henry), 1837-1915 -- Friends and associates
- Minor, William Chester
- Oxford English dictionary
- New English dictionary on historical principles
- Psychiatric hospital patients -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries -- History and criticism
- Lexicographers -- Great Britain -- Biography
- English language -- Lexicography
- English language -- Etymology
- PE1617.W759.P764 1999
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| PE1591.R7 2010 Roget's thesaurus / | PE1591.R716 1992 Roget's 21st century thesaurus. | PE1611.L43 2007 Dictionary activities / | PE1617.O94W56 1999 The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary / | PE1628.C52 1996 Chambers students' dictionary / | PE1628.F786.N494 1996 Practical English usage / | PE1628.5.E937 1984 Everyday American English dictionary /editor, Richard A. Spears ; associate editor, Linda Schinke-Llano ; consulting editor, Betty Kirkpatrick. |
The dead of the night in Lambeth Marsh -- The man who taught Latin to cattle -- The madness of war -- Gathering Earth's daughters -- The big dictionary conceived -- The scholar in cell block two -- Entering the lists -- Annulated, art, brick-tea, buckwheat -- The meeting of minds -- The unkindest cut -- Then only the monuments.
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