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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.

James Augustus Henry Murray

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

James Augustus Henry Murray

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:

The evolution of English lexicography (1900)
EDIBLE & GAME BIRDS OF BRITISH

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