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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25019.The_Professor_and_the_Madman_A_Tale_of_Murder_Insanity_and_the_Making_of_the_Oxford_English_Dictionary?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary (P.S.)" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1167571834m/25019.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25019.The_Professor_and_the_Madman_A_Tale_of_Murder_Insanity_and_the_Making_of_the_Oxford_English_Dictionary?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/14053.Simon_Winchester">Simon Winchester</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/19199940?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 4 of 5 stars<br/>It's been years - I'm guessing that it was 1999 when I read this - but it was intriguing. How often do we think about how things like dictionaries, etc., have come into existence? <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/973879?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>