Started: 8/17/2024
Finished: 8/19/2024
Year: 1998
Pages: 226
Genre: history
Grade: C
Reason for reading: bookcrossing.com book
Type: paperback
Blurb (from Amazon): "Masterfully researched and eloquently written, The Professor and the Madman is an extraordinary tale of madness, genius, and the incredible obsessions of two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary—one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. As definitions were collected, the OED’s overseeing committee, led by Professor James Murray, was stunned to discover that one man, Dr. W. C. Minor, had submitted more than ten thousand entries. But their surprise would pale in comparison to what they were about to discover when the committee insisted on honoring him. Dr. Minor, an American Civil War veteran, was also an inmate at an asylum for the criminally insane."
Opinion: Interesting history of the Oxford English Dictionary
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