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In The Professor and the Madman, a book about the development of the Oxford English Dictionary, by Simon Winchester, one of the most prolific contributors to the dictionary was Dr. W.C. Minor, an American who spent much of his adult life in
a. a monastery in Virginia.
b. a prison hospital in Vermont.
c. an English insane asylum.
d. a Scottish castle.
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Simon Winchester

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September 28, 1944

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male

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England, The United Kingdom

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http://www.simonwinchester.com

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A remarkable story of the growth of a great nation and the eccentric scientist who defined its essence for the world."

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avg rating: 3.71 | 11,318 ratings | 2,009 reviews | 37 distinct works | 19 fans

	The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester avg rating 3.74 — 6,705 ratings — published 1998 41 editions	my rating:
	Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883 by Simon Winchester avg rating 3.71 — 1,268 ratings — published 2003 22 editions	my rating:
	The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester avg rating 3.86 — 622 ratings — published 2003 9 editions	my rating:
	The Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology by Simon Winchester avg rating 3.47 — 613 ratings — published 2001 19 editions	my rating:
	A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester avg rating 3.67 — 434 ratings — published 2003 16 editions	my rating:
	The Man Who Loved China: Joseph Needham and the Making of a Masterpiece by Simon Winchester avg rating 3.65 — 358 ratings — published 2008 11 editions	my rating:
	The River at the Center of the World: A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time by Simon Winchester avg rating 3.68 — 114 ratings — published 1996 10 editions	my rating:
	Outposts: Journeys to the Surviving Relics of the British Empire by Simon Winchester avg rating 3.59 — 98 ratings — published 1986 7 editions	my rating:
	Korea: A Walk Through the Land of Miracles by Simon Winchester avg rating 3.47 — 74 ratings — published 1988 7 editions	my rating:
	The Fracture Zone: My Return to the Balkans by Simon Winchester avg rating 3.38 — 37 ratings — published 1999 5 editions	my rating:

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"Any grand new dictionary ought itself to be a democratic product, a book that demonstrated the primacy of individual freedoms, of the notion that one could use words freely, as one liked, without hard and fast rules of lexical conduct."
— Simon Winchester (The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary)

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