
“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.”
― The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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