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Book Review of The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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Story of how a man locked up in an asylum for the criminally insane helped provide numerous entries for the first addition of the Oxford Enflish Dictionary.