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charged with murder!Ī weird and wonderful story of an eccentric friendship, and a slice of history Sunday Times Minor, had submitted more than ten thousand of those words.īut when the committee insisted on honouring him, a shocking truth came to light: Dr. The compilation of the Oxford English Dictionary, begun in 1857, was one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken. An extraordinary tale of madness, genius and obsession, discover the true story of the two remarkable men that led to the making of the Oxford English Dictionary - and literary history!
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