Title | : | Sir James Murray and The Oxford English Dictionary |
Duration | : | 4 minutes, 44 seconds |
Uploader | : | Nicholas Hoare Books |
Added On: | : | 12 October, 2018 |
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Source | : | YouTube |
Little did James Murray suspect, when interviewed by the Delegates of Oxford University in 1878, that he would become the lifelong editor of the first new English dictionary since Boswell. The prodigious effort that ensued, involving 400,000 words and t