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james augustus henry murray (n)
Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915)
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Scottish philologist and the lexicographer who shaped the Oxford English Dictionary (1837-1915)
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James Augustus Henry Murray was an English lexicographer and philologist, best known for being the first editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED).
Murray's work on the OED spanned over 40 years, and he saw the completion of the first edition in 1928, just three years before his death.
Murray's editorial methods were groundbreaking, and he developed a system of using volunteer readers to collect citations for words from a wide variety of sources.
Murray was also a gifted linguist, and he learned over 40 languages in order to better understand the history of English words.
