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008			980128s1998 nyua b 000 0deng
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035			_a(Sirsi) i9780060175962
035			_a(Sirsi) i9780060175962
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050	0	0	_aPE 1617.O94 _bW56 1998
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100	1		_aWinchester, Simon.
245	1	4	_aThe professor and the madman : _ba tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary / _cSimon Winchester.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York : _bHarperCollins Publishers, _cc1998.
300			_axi, 242 p. : _bill. ; _c22 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [239]-242).
505	0	0	_g1. The _tdead of night in Lambeth Marsh -- _g2. The _tman who taught Latin to cattle -- _g3. The _tmadness of war -- _g4. _tGathering Earth's daughters -- _g5. The _tbig dictionary conceived -- _g6. The _tscholar in cell block two -- _g7. _tEntering the lists -- _g8. _tAnnulated, art, brick-tea, buckwheat -- _g9. The _tmeeting of minds -- _g10. The _tunkindest cut -- _g11. _tThen only the monuments.
520			_aThe 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	0	0	_aOxford English dictionary.
630	0	0	_aNew English dictionary on historical principles.
650		0	_aEnglish language _xLexicography _xHistory _y19th century.
600	1	0	_aMurray, James A. H. _q(James Augustus Henry), _d1837-1915.
650		0	_aLexicographers _zGreat Britain _vBiography.
600	1	0	_aMinor, William Chester.
650		0	_aPsychiatric hospital patients _zGreat Britain _vBiography.
651		0	_aUnited States _xHistory _yCivil War, 1861-1865 _xVeterans _vBiography.
650		0	_aEnglish language _xEtymology.
600	1	6	_aMurray, James A. H. _q(James Augustus Henry), _d1837-1915 _xAmis et relations
600	1	6	_aMinor, William Chester, _d1834-1920
630	0	6	_aOxford English dictionary _xHistoire
650		6	_aPatients dans les h�opitaux psychiatriques _zAngleterre _vBiographies
650		6	_aEncyclop�edies et dictionnaires anglais _xHistoire et critique
650		6	_aLexicographes _zGrande-Bretagne _vBiographies
650		6	_aAnglais (Langue) _xLexicographie
650		6	_aAnglais (Langue) _x�Etymologie
651		6	_a�Etats-Unis _xHistoire _y1861-1865 (Guerre de S�ecession) _xAnciens combattants _vBiographies
650		1	_aEnglish language _xLexicography.
600	1	7	_aMurray, James Augustus Henry _d(1837-1915). _2ram
630	4	7	_aThe Oxford English dictionary. _2ram
650		7	_aPatients dans les h�opitaux psychiatriques _zGrande-Bretagne _xBiographies. _2ram
650		7	_aLexicographes _zGrande-Bretagne _xBiographies. _2ram
650		7	_aAnglais (langue) _xLexicographie. _2ram
600	1	7	_aMurray, James Augustus Henry _2swd
600	1	7	_aMinor, William Chester _2swd
630	0	7	_aThe Oxford English dictionary _2swd
650	0	7	_aEntstehung _2swd
994			_aC0 _bVF$
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/hc042/98010204.html
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0911/98010204-b.html
999			_c131988 _d131988