Sir James Murray and The Oxford English Dictionary

[@freeq1164]

The movie ( the professor and the mad man ) brought me here 😊 may the souls rest in peace🙏 Thanks for sharing❤

[@jaybdub77]

Loved the movie. 👍

[@sarasam6392]

Me 2

[@hongkongcantonese501]

I would seriously love to spend a few hours in the Hoare House reading the OED and being surrounded by words and history.

[@rajesh220309]

Sir, it would be absolutely wonderful if you can give us a tour of your library.

[@skaterdude10001]

I hope to have a library like this one day! I see a copy of "speaking for themselves", an almost complete history of the notes between Winston and Clementines Churchill.

[@asamatteroflaw570]

Thank you sir! Great telling of scholarship!

[@abdulrahmanalghuwainem9203]

what a fascinating character.

[@smiledentgal]

Reading The Dictionary of Lost Words.... thus the curiosity lead me to this video.

[@decklanhartzenberg]

Thank you for this video 👍🏽

[@ProjectLighthouse122]

I’d do anything to own that set!

[@mohsinuddin7049]

So just buy it. It currently costs £862.50 from the Oxford University Press website. That’s less than £44 per book.

[@godbluffvdgg]

The OED is an impressive tome...I wonder how the future will see it. I've had a Harvard Unabridged for decades...It's magical to look through it but; The computer has replaced it for general purposes...I'm in my 60's and sadly the world no longer admires feats of intellectual grandeur...Finding people that read, or have read, anything of substance is the sighting of a rare bird. Shakespeare is all but dead. Melville and even Twain are no more discussed than the steam engines of their time... The world must be turned on its head for the great change it silently shrieks for to occur ......Thanks for the video...I learned from it...

[@JuanMartinezavalos-lt8uk]

Espectacular

[@onlyconnect88]

What a charming gentleman

[@jessib3922]

I wish I could have been to one of your stores.

[@NICHOLASHOAREBOOKS]

I wish you could have, too! Welcome aboard.

[@dianebaugher3919]

The book "The Dictionary of Lost Words" made me seek out more info on James Murray

[@iamnothale]

This is exactly what I expect a rich man's room to look like, I'm more interested in his book collection.

[@davewhite756]

I need this because I play scrabble

[@Canigetanawwwwyyyyeeeah]

The irreverence for words in our current age flummoxes me, greatly.

[@roolm4295]

What the heck are you wearing? Pijamas or tuxedo? Is that comfortable to use at home?

[@owlcrkbrg]

I found a mistake in a definition of a word in the OED. How do I report it?

[@megasterrobert5841]

Your mother

[@olawalebolatito1102]

When it's last edition

[@KRD2023]

It was 1989 ie. second edition of the magnificent lexicon.

[@nurlatifahmohdnor8939]

Page 108 Within a decade, in 1890s whalers all but destroyed the once-vast walrus herds of the eastern Arctic. Polar bear rugs came into fashion. Every proper Victorian baby had to have his picture taken lying on a polar bear skin. Between 1905 and 1909, Dundee whalers alone killed more than a thousand polar bears off Greenland's east coast. Thousands more were killed in Hudson Bay and Baffin Bay.

[@nurlatifahmohdnor8939]

Photography and text by: Fred Bruemmer

[@sohan4806]

BANGLADESH MRP KTO ....???

[@wheelieblind]

American's in the US like to tell me that Webster made the first English dictionary. Just like they insist to me they were the first to go to space... and I am like, "No you moron... the first to go to the moon!" Oh and keep on believing Texas is the biggest state of the US for all I care.

[@josephwright5921]

I worked with a guy who swears we did not go to the moon and the earth is flat. He also said that the CERN particle accelerator in Europe is somehow warping reality and changing the words in books that were already printed.

[@rashninja3941]

@@josephwright5921 i lost brain cells thanks joseph.

[@nextgenstudios4878]

For pet cremation, grandparent divorce, call James s Murray of course.

[@smorris7435]

Ludicrous.

[@Chertoff88]

Your in Vermont not Oxford bro😅 the smoking jacket and bowtie is a bit much