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4/19/1928		The OED, the Professor & the Madman On this date in 1928, the final volume of the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary was published. The original estimate was that the complete four-volume set would take ten years; when it took five years to get to "ant," the editors knew they had underestimated spectacularly. They did not know that they were being significantly helped by a contributor from the insane asylum.

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Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology reference
Oxford English Dictionary: Version 3.0 (software) software / cd-rom
Shorter Oxford English Dictionary reference
The Compact Oxford English Dictionary / Book, Magnifying Glass, User's Guide reference
The New Oxford American Dictionary reference
The Oxford American Desk Dictionary and Thesaurus reference
The Oxford American Thesaurus of Current English reference
The Oxford Companion to English Literature guide
The Oxford Picture Dictionary: Monolingual reference

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Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary by K. M. Elisabeth Murray, R. W. Burchfield biography
The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester non-fiction, literary history

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