The making of the Oxford English Dictionary was a monumental 50 year task requiring thousands of volunteers. One of the keenest volunteers was a W C Minor who astonished everyone by refusing to come to Oxford to receive his congratulations. In the end, James Murray, the OED's editor, went to Crowthorne in Berkshire to meet him. What he found was incredible - Minor was a millionaire American civil war surgeon turned lunatic, imprisoned in Broadmoor Asylum for murder and yet who dedicated his entire cell-bound life to work on the English language.
- ISBN10 0141037717
- ISBN13 9780141037714
- Publish Date 1 September 2008
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 28 January 2010
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Penguin Books Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 224
- Language English