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'… - James Murray (lexicographer)

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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.

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About James Murray (lexicographer)

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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