The professor and the madman: a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary

• Tác giả: Samuel R Delany
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-10: 0060175966
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 658.452 Oral communication
• Thông tin xuất bản: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c1998. , 2005
• Bộ sưu tập: Khoa học ứng dụng
• ID: 52809
• Chủ đề: 1. English language--Etymology; 2. English language--Lexicography--19th century; 3. Lexicographers--Great Britain; 4. Psychiatric hospital patients--Great Britain

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