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Wikipedia says he was a major contributor, but there's a large team other than him. I don't see any suggestion that Oxford English Dictionary "owes its existenc
by voiper1 6y ago
Wikipedia says he was a major contributor, but there's a large team other than him.
I don't see any suggestion that Oxford English Dictionary "owes its existence" to him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary#Early_editors https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary#Earl...
- nwah1 6y agoWikipedia? Are you going to take the word of a bunch of internet lunatics? To be serious, the book The Surgeon of Crowthorne describes it as if their decades-long work was going at a snail's pace and Dr. Minor was crucial to making sufficient progress and avoiding the project being cancelled.