Comment by nwah1
5 years ago
This was true even before the internet. The Oxford English Dictionary owes its existence to the paranoid schizophrenic Dr. William Minor, who did his work from an insane asylum after murdering a man.
5 years ago
This was true even before the internet. The Oxford English Dictionary owes its existence to the paranoid schizophrenic Dr. William Minor, who did his work from an insane asylum after murdering a man.
Wikipedia says he was a major contributor, but there's a large team other than him. I don't see any suggestion that Oxford English Dictionary "owes its existence" to him.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_English_Dictionary#Earl...
Wikipedia? Are you going to take the word of a bunch of internet lunatics?
To be serious, the book The Surgeon of Crowthorne describes it as if their decades-long work was going at a snail's pace and Dr. Minor was crucial to making sufficient progress and avoiding the project being cancelled.