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98010204 |
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(Sirsi) i9780060175962 |
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(Sirsi) i9780060175962 |
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DLC |
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eng |
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DLC |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0060175966 |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780060175962 |
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(OCoLC)38425992 |
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| Classification number |
PE 1617.O94 |
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W56 1998 |
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VF$A |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Winchester, Simon. |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The professor and the madman : |
| Remainder of title |
a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
Simon Winchester. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
1st ed. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
New York : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
HarperCollins Publishers, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
c1998. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xi, 242 p. : |
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ill. ; |
| Dimensions |
22 cm. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-242). |
| 505 00 - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Miscellaneous information |
1. The |
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dead of night in Lambeth Marsh -- |
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2. The |
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man who taught Latin to cattle -- |
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3. The |
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madness of war -- |
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4. |
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Gathering Earth's daughters -- |
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5. The |
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big dictionary conceived -- |
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6. The |
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scholar in cell block two -- |
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7. |
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Entering the lists -- |
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8. |
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Annulated, art, brick-tea, buckwheat -- |
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9. The |
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meeting of minds -- |
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10. The |
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unkindest cut -- |
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11. |
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Then only the monuments. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
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 its creation is a fascinating and mysterious story - a story of two remarkable men whose strange twenty-year relationship lies at the core of this historic undertaking. Professor James Murray, an astonishingly learned former schoolmaster and bank clerk, was the distinguished editor of the OED project. Dr. William Chester Minor, an American surgeon from New Haven, Connecticut, who had served in the Civil War, was one of thousands of contributors who submitted illustrative quotations of words to be used in the dictionary. But Minor was no ordinary contributor. He was remarkably prolific, sending thousands of neat, handwritten quotations from his home in the small village of Crowthorne, fifty miles from Oxford. On numerous occasions Murray invited Minor to visit Oxford and celebrate his work, but Murray's offer was regularly - and mysteriously - refused. Thus the two men, for two decades, maintained a close relationship only through correspondence. Finally, in 1896, after Minor had sent nearly ten thousand definitions to the dictionary but had still never traveled from his home, a puzzled Murray set out to visit him. It was then that Murray finally learned the truth about Minor - that, in addition to being a masterful wordsmith, Minor was also a murderer, clinically insane - and locked up in Broadmoor, England's harshest asylum for criminal lunatics. |
| 630 00 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE |
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| Uniform title |
Oxford English dictionary. |
| 630 00 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE |
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| Uniform title |
New English dictionary on historical principles. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
English language |
| General subdivision |
Lexicography |
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History |
| Chronological subdivision |
19th century. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Murray, James A. H. |
| Fuller form of name |
(James Augustus Henry), |
| Dates associated with a name |
1837-1915. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Lexicographers |
| Geographic subdivision |
Great Britain |
| Form subdivision |
Biography. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Minor, William Chester. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Psychiatric hospital patients |
| Geographic subdivision |
Great Britain |
| Form subdivision |
Biography. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
United States |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
Civil War, 1861-1865 |
| General subdivision |
Veterans |
| Form subdivision |
Biography. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
English language |
| General subdivision |
Etymology. |
| 600 16 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Murray, James A. H. |
| Fuller form of name |
(James Augustus Henry), |
| Dates associated with a name |
1837-1915 |
| General subdivision |
Amis et relations |
| 600 16 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Minor, William Chester, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1834-1920 |
| 630 06 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE |
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| Uniform title |
Oxford English dictionary |
| General subdivision |
Histoire |
| 650 #6 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Patients dans les h�opitaux psychiatriques |
| Geographic subdivision |
Angleterre |
| Form subdivision |
Biographies |
| 650 #6 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Encyclop�edies et dictionnaires anglais |
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Histoire et critique |
| 650 #6 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Lexicographes |
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Grande-Bretagne |
| Form subdivision |
Biographies |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Anglais (Langue) |
| General subdivision |
Lexicographie |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Anglais (Langue) |
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�Etymologie |
| 651 #6 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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�Etats-Unis |
| General subdivision |
Histoire |
| Chronological subdivision |
1861-1865 (Guerre de S�ecession) |
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Anciens combattants |
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Biographies |
| 650 #1 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
English language |
| General subdivision |
Lexicography. |
| 600 17 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Murray, James Augustus Henry |
| Dates associated with a name |
(1837-1915). |
| Source of heading or term |
ram |
| 630 47 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE |
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| Uniform title |
The Oxford English dictionary. |
| Source of heading or term |
ram |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Patients dans les h�opitaux psychiatriques |
| Geographic subdivision |
Grande-Bretagne |
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Biographies. |
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ram |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Lexicographes |
| Geographic subdivision |
Grande-Bretagne |
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Biographies. |
| Source of heading or term |
ram |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Anglais (langue) |
| General subdivision |
Lexicographie. |
| Source of heading or term |
ram |
| 600 17 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Murray, James Augustus Henry |
| Source of heading or term |
swd |
| 600 17 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Minor, William Chester |
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swd |
| 630 07 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE |
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| Uniform title |
The Oxford English dictionary |
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swd |
| 650 07 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Entstehung |
| Source of heading or term |
swd |
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| Materials specified |
Publisher description |
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<a href="http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/hc042/98010204.html">http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/hc042/98010204.html</a> |
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Contributor biographical information |
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<a href="http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0911/98010204-b.html">http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0911/98010204-b.html</a> |
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