Confidently Incorrect@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

America wrote the dictionary.

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Confidently Incorrect@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

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Dr William Minor submitted over 10,000 words to the first draft of the Oxford English Dictionary from a Scottish Lunatic Asylum.

There was a movie about it called The Professor and the Madman.
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  I haven’t seen it. Is it worth a watch?

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