Sir James Murray and The Oxford English Dictionary
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- Опубликовано: 26 июл 2024
- Little did James Murray suspect, when interviewed by the Delegates of Oxford University in 1878, that he would become the lifelong editor of the first new English dictionary since Boswell. The prodigious effort that ensued, involving 400,000 words and three times as many citations, became the first edition of a noble, 12-volume work called The Oxford English Dictionary, now known retronymically (there's a word for you) as OED1. The current 2nd edition, OED2, was only published 60 years later, which speaks volumes for the original.
Sir James, who was rightfully knighted and became the subject of a riveting best-seller himself (Simon Winchester's The Meaning of Everything: The Story of The Oxford English Dictionary), is a topic on his own. He spoke 5 languages, half-a-dozen dialects, and had a passable acquaintance with Aramaic, Arabic and Coptic; but the sheer scope of his magnum opus, which even compelled the Post Office to give him his own pillar box ("Mr. Murray, Oxford" would always reach him), became the stuff of legend, as indeed did the lexicographic monument he so brilliantly created.
Building on his immensely durable foundation, the magnificent 2nd edition, currently under review, has expanded to 20 volumes from 12, runs to 21,000 pages, and weighs over 60 kg. But it doesn't stop there. Its three subsequent supplements are updated electronically daily against a 3rd edition, scheduled for publication in 2037 at a cost of no less than 40 million pounds.
This stupefying, ongoing achievement, to say nowt of the vast investment of time, effort and money that has already been poured into it, has become - quite deservedly - the bible of English lexicography. It holds a hallowed place at the Hoare house, having long since proven itself (its etymology alone is unique), and remains both a pillar of the English tongue and a lifelong asset to anyone fortunate enough either to own or receive it as a gift.
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The movie ( the professor and the mad man ) brought me here 😊
may the souls rest in peace🙏
Thanks for sharing❤
Loved the movie. 👍
Me 2
I would seriously love to spend a few hours in the Hoare House reading the OED and being surrounded by words and history.
Thank you sir! Great telling of scholarship!
Sir, it would be absolutely wonderful if you can give us a tour of your library.
I hope to have a library like this one day! I see a copy of "speaking for themselves", an almost complete history of the notes between Winston and Clementines Churchill.
This is exactly what I expect a rich man's room to look like,
I'm more interested in his book collection.
what a fascinating character.
Thank you for this video 👍🏽
The OED is an impressive tome...I wonder how the future will see it. I've had a Harvard Unabridged for decades...It's magical to look through it but; The computer has replaced it for general purposes...I'm in my 60's and sadly the world no longer admires feats of intellectual grandeur...Finding people that read, or have read, anything of substance is the sighting of a rare bird. Shakespeare is all but dead. Melville and even Twain are no more discussed than the steam engines of their time... The world must be turned on its head for the great change it silently shrieks for to occur ......Thanks for the video...I learned from it...
Reading The Dictionary of Lost Words.... thus the curiosity lead me to this video.
What a charming gentleman
I need this because I play scrabble
Espectacular
The book "The Dictionary of Lost Words" made me seek out more info on James Murray
I wish I could have been to one of your stores.
I wish you could have, too! Welcome aboard.
I’d do anything to own that set!
So just buy it. It currently costs £862.50 from the Oxford University Press website. That’s less than £44 per book.
When it's last edition
I found a mistake in a definition of a word in the OED. How do I report it?
Your mother
The irreverence for words in our current age flummoxes me, greatly.
Page 108
Within a decade, in 1890s whalers all but destroyed the once-vast walrus herds of the eastern Arctic. Polar bear rugs came into fashion. Every proper Victorian baby had to have his picture taken lying on a polar bear skin. Between 1905 and 1909, Dundee whalers alone killed more than a thousand polar bears off Greenland's east coast. Thousands more were killed in Hudson Bay and Baffin Bay.
Photography and text by: Fred Bruemmer
BANGLADESH MRP KTO ....???
American's in the US like to tell me that Webster made the first English dictionary. Just like they insist to me they were the first to go to space... and I am like, "No you moron... the first to go to the moon!" Oh and keep on believing Texas is the biggest state of the US for all I care.
I worked with a guy who swears we did not go to the moon and the earth is flat. He also said that the CERN particle accelerator in Europe is somehow warping reality and changing the words in books that were already printed.
@@josephwright5921 i lost brain cells thanks joseph.
For pet cremation, grandparent divorce, call James s Murray of course.
Ludicrous.
Your in Vermont not Oxford bro😅 the smoking jacket and bowtie is a bit much