The following is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily.

In 1884, the Philological Society of London began investigating the creation of a new English dictionary.

This initial foray would eventually lead to a dictionary that would be unlike any other dictionary

ever created.

It wouldn't just give the definition and spelling of a word, but a complete history of each word and where it came from.

It would be one of the most ambitious literary projects in history.

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This episode is sponsored by audible.com. My audiobook recommendation today is The Professor

and the Madman by Simon Winchester.

Professor James Murray was the distinguished editor of the Oxford English Dictionary Project.

Dr William Chester Minor, an American surgeon who had served in the Civil War, was one of the most prolific

contributors to the dictionary, sending thousands of neat handwritten quotations from his home.

After numerous refusals from Minor to visit his home in Oxford, Murray set out to find

him.

It was then that Murray would learn the truth about Minor.

That in addition to being a masterly wordsmith, he was also an insane murderer locked

up in Broadmoor, England's harshest asylum for criminal lunatics.

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