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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary (paperback ed.). UK: Penguin. ISBN 0-14-027128-7. Winchester, Simon (1998). The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (hardback ed.). US: HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-017596-6.
The Pocket Oxford Dictionary of Current English was originally conceived by F. G. Fowler and H. W. Fowler to be compressed, compact, and concise. Its primary source is the Oxford English Dictionary, and it is nominally an abridgement of the Concise Oxford Dictionary. It was first published in 1924. [86]