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The blue plaque at 78 Banbury Road The erstwhile home of James Murray at 78 Banbury Road, Oxford: the blue plaque was installed in 2002. On 1 March 1879, a formal agreement was put in place to the effect that Murray was to edit a new English Dictionary, which would eventually become the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). It was expected to take ...
The film is about professor James Murray, who in 1879 became director of an Oxford University Press project, The New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (now known as the Oxford English Dictionary) and the man who became his friend and colleague, W. C. Minor, a doctor who submitted more than 10,000 entries while he was confined at ...
James Murray: 1879–1915: 1st edition. Died in office. Henry Bradley: 1915–23: 1st edition. Joined 1887. Died in office. William Craigie: 1923–33: 1st edition and 1st Supplement, jointly with Onions. Joined 1901. Charles Talbut Onions: 1923–33: 1st edition and 1st Supplement, jointly with Craigie. Joined 1914. Robert Burchfield: 1957 ...
The book tells the story of the making of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) and one of its most prolific early contributors, William Chester Minor, a retired United States Army surgeon. Minor was, at the time, imprisoned in the Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum , near the village of Crowthorne , in Berkshire , England.
The compilers of the dictionary published lists of words for which they wanted examples of usage. Minor provided these with increasing ease as the lists grew. It was many years before the OED ' s editor, James Murray, learned of Minor's history and visited him in January 1891 (as well as many times thereafter). In 1899, Murray paid compliment ...
OED editor James Murray in his Scriptorium. Lexicographer Sarah Ogilvie worked as an editor on the third edition of the OED. Towards the end of 2014, [3] nearing the end of her employment with the OED, she found three of James Murray's handwritten address books [4] in the basement archive of the Oxford University Press. Murray recorded the ...
Sir James Murray. Sir James Murray (1788–1871) was an Irish physician, whose research into digestion led to his discovery of the stomach aid Milk of Magnesia in 1809. He later studied in electrotherapy and led the research into the causes of cholera and other epidemics as a result of exposure to natural electricity.
Bradley came to James Murray's attention in February 1884 when he reviewed the first fascicle of the OED, A–Ant, in the Academy. Bradley's review praised the clear format and simple design of the dictionary and its economy in using quotations, but it also challenged Murray's etymology, and this caused quite a stir. At the time, Bradley was an ...