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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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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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James Augustus Henry Murray
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Born:
February 7, 1837
Died:
July 26, 1915
(aged 78)
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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:
The evolution of English lexicography (1900)
EDIBLE & GAME BIRDS OF BRITISH
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