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Simon Winchester – The Professor and the Madman

January 31, 2018 by Jennifer

Simon Winchester The Professor and the Madman Cover“Each and every time he found a word that piqued his interest he wrote it down, in tiny, almost microscopic letters, in its proper position in the quire he had made.

The unique manner of his procedure was soon to become a hallmark of Minor’s astonishing accuracy and eye for detail. His work would win the admiration and awe of all who were later to see it; even today the quires preserved in the dictionary archives are such as to make people gasp.”

I’ve had this one floating on my TBR for years. Finally got it done. Interesting backstory on the Oxford English Dictionary.

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