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I feel that in many respects I and my assistants are simply pioneers, pushing our way experimentally through an untrodden forest, where no white man's axe has been before us.

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The circle of the English language has a well-defined center but no discernible circumference.

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James Augustus Henry Murray

James Augustus Henry Murray
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Born: February 7, 1837
Died: July 26, 1915 (aged 78)
Bio: Sir James Augustus Henry Murray was a Scottish lexicographer and philologist. He was the primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary from 1879 until his death.
Known for:
  1. The evolution of English lexicography (1900)
  2. EDIBLE & GAME BIRDS OF BRITISH

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