The Professor and the Madman — Netflix

How the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) came to be.

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You can thank Dr. William Minor and Professor James Murray for your dictionary. Professor Murray was a word nerd and Dr. Minor was majorly out of his mind.

“James Murray had always been an intelligent child and was known as a talented autodidact who was especially gifted in languages. With a strong handle on at least six…