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The Invention of the Modern Dictionary

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The Oxford English Dictionary - I Have No Citations for Duck

The 18 64 edition did include william minor, who was made exceedingly famous in large part by simon winchester's book. He was an american physician who moved to london and killed two irish labourers. Was imprisoned in the broad more insane asylum for the criminally ill for a number of decades. Became one of the major contributors to the oxford english dictionary because he was apparently good at finding citations for words which had none.

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