James Murray (lexicographer) Quotes

Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, FBA (7 February 1837 – 26 July 1915) was a British lexicographer and philologist. He was the primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) from 1879 until his death.

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I feel that in many respects I and my assistants are simply pioneers, pushing our way experimentally through an untrodden forest, where no white man's axe has been before us.

The circle of the English language has a well-defined centre but no discernible circumference.

Quotations will tell the full measure of meaning — if you have enough of them.

James Murray (lexicographer) Quotes

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