![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Although he pursued many different interests, his overriding passion was for linguistics and phonetics and the origins of words. He was a voracious reader who accumulated knowledge purely for the sake of learning. His lack of further formal education didn’t hold him back too much, as he loved learning. ![]() Murray was born into a working-class family in Scotland and left school at fourteen. The majority of The Surgeon of Crowthorne is concerned with the backgrounds, motivations and personalities of Murray and Minor, and of the relationship between them. Unfortunately this is also the smallest part of the book, so while we get a feel for the awe-inspiring work it was, we only get a brief taste of the more than seventy years it took to create the first edition. So one very important thing you get from this book is a sense of just what an incredible achievement it was to create the OED. Minor.īefore I started reading this book, I’d never truly considered just how much work went into compiling a dictionary. This book is partly a history of the writing/compiling/creation of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) and partly a biography of two of the men intimately connected with its creation, the main editor of the OED, Professor James Murray, and a major contributor, Dr W. ![]()
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