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The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Love of Words is a non-fiction history book by British writer Simon Winchester, first published in England in 1998. It was retitled The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary in the United States and Canada.

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The Surgeon of Crowthorne

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The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Love of Words is a non-fiction history book by British writer Simon Winchester, first published...

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The Meaning of Everything

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under the editorship of James Murray and others, one aspect of which Winchester had previously written about in 1998 in The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale...

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Simon Winchester

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by Penguin UK as The Surgeon of Crowthorne. Telling the story of the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary, the book was a New York Times Best Seller...

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Dictionary

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HarperPerennial. ISBN 0-06-099486-X. (published in the UK as The Surgeon of Crowthorne). P. G. J. van Sterkenburg, ed. (2003). A practical guide to lexicography...

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Units of paper quantity

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also became the name for any booklet small enough to be made from a single quire of paper. Simon Winchester, in The Surgeon of Crowthorne, cites a specific...

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William Chester Minor

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Helped Write Oxford Dictionary". The book The Surgeon of Crowthorne (published in America as The Professor and the Madman), by Simon Winchester, was published...

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List of contributors to the Oxford English Dictionary

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Mary Yonge Henry Yule Ghil'ad Zuckermann The Dictionary People The Meaning of Everything The Surgeon of Crowthorne "Dictionary Editors". Oxford English Dictionary...

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Broadmoor Hospital

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psychiatric hospital in Crowthorne, Berkshire, England. It is the oldest of England's three high-security psychiatric hospitals, the other two being Ashworth...

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The Dictionary People

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with Murray the subject of Simon Winchester's 1998 book The Surgeon of Crowthorne, which was adapted into the 1999 film The Professor and the Madman. Ogilvie...

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Thomas Minor

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Museum of Natural History, New York City.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) Winchester, Simon (1998). The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A...

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Writer

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ISBN 9781863171441. Winchester, Simon (1998). The Surgeon of Crowthorne: a tale of murder, madness and the love of words. London: Viking. ISBN 0670878626. Grossman...

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Oxford English Dictionary

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requests. The story of how Murray and Minor worked together to advance the OED was retold in the 1998 book The Surgeon of Crowthorne (US title: The Professor...

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List of people from the London Borough of Lambeth

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the Oxford English Dictionary. New York: HarperPerennial. ISBN 978-0-06017-596-2. (The original British edition is titled The Surgeon of Crowthorne.)...

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different titles in the United Kingdom and United States. Categories of such works include co-editions of books and foreign releases of films. Unless otherwise...

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List of British films of 2019

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least 3 of the following criteria: The film is adapted from a British source material. The story is at least partially set in the United Kingdom. The film...

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Psychiatric hospital

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Hospital in Crowthorne, Rampton Secure Hospital in Retford, and the State Hospital in Carstairs, Scotland. In Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel...

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William Ivison Macadam

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disturbed gunman in his own laboratory at Surgeons Hall, Edinburgh. The Scotsman ran a contemporary view of him the day after his death: "Few men were more...

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Walter de Sausmarez Cayley

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he lived at Crowthorne, Berkshire, and in 1939 he was Deputy Lieutenant of Berkshire. A Banker's Family – Descendants of Edward Cayley of Stamford (1782–1868)...

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History of Johannesburg

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miles from the market square. The mining commissioner and the district surgeon were to be ex-officio members of the committee. The area of the committee's...

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James Nesbitt

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"ITV Crime Thriller Awards: About the Awards". itv.com. Retrieved 10 October 2008. Pyle, Mike (17 June 2010). "Crowthorne couple's James Nesbitt film in...

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Louisa Mak

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Examination. Mak moved to Crowthorne, Berkshire and attended Wellington College for her matriculation, to acclimate herself to the British academic environment...

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Great British Railway Journeys

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current total of 14 series. The series features Portillo travelling around the railway networks of Great Britain, Ireland, and the Isle of Man, referring...

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