Dr. James Murray was invited by Oxford University Press to compile the Oxford English Dictionary. This is a huge project. It is impossible to collect and organize hundreds of thousands of words with the efforts of a few members of the editorial team. Dr. Murray, who came from a commoner, has pioneered the model of national participation, allowing all English speakers to work together. Collect term definitions and mail them to the editing team. Although there is support from the whole people, the compilation is still difficult. For more than 20 years, the editing team has successively received nearly 10,000 quotations from a doctor named Miner - such a workload has exceeded that of professional scholars. When the first volume of the dictionary was published, Dr. Murray came to thank him, only to find out that Dr. Miner was a military doctor during the American Civil War who was locked up in a mental hospital for manslaughter due to schizophrenia
In the name of culture, dictionaries connect people who speak the same language, regardless of high or low, male or female, young or old. It is precisely because this era is too superficial that we need those heavy and solid foundations to place our drifting thoughts. Confirm our heritage.
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