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The Strange Case of the Surgeon at Crowthorne.(dictionary writers meet)
"I am Dr. James Murray of the London Philological Society and Editor of the New English Dictionary. It is indeed an honor and a pleasure to at long last make your acquaintance -- for you must be, kind sir, my most assiduous helpmeet, Dr. W. C. Minor?"
Popular legend has it that a most remarkable conversation took place on a misty autumn afternoon in 1897, in the small English village of Crowthorne. One of the parties to the colloquy was the formidable James Murray, the then editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, or, as it was called in its early days, the New English Dictionary. On the day in question Murray had traveled 50 miles by train from Oxford to meet an ...
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