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The Professor and the Madman

 

John Simpson (JS), Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary, and Simon Winchester (SW), author of The Professor and the Madman (published as The Surgeon of Crowthorne in Europe, both published by Penguin Books), discuss William Minor and the Oxford English Dictionary in an edited transcript of a conversation held in New York in April 1999.

If you would like to hear more from John Simpson there is a transcript of a live chat with him at wordsmith.org.


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