Eeeeeee!

May. 12th, 2010 11:00 am
swan_tower: (academia)
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I have no idea how I would use this, but apparently the OED started being published in 1884.

If I can find a way to work that into the novel, I totally will.

Date: 2010-05-12 09:19 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] wadam.livejournal.com
There's always William Chester Minor's madness. But Simon Winchester covered that territory pretty thoroughly.

Date: 2010-05-14 01:23 am (UTC)
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It cracks me up that the OED was published in alphabetical order. I mean, I suppose that's the logical way to do it if you want to publish it piecemeal, but I would have assumed (if I hadn't read Simon Winchester's The Meaning of Everything and The Professor and the Madman) that they'd assemble the entire thing and then publish it in one monstrous go.

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