
“And after that, and also for each word, there should be sentences that show the twists and turns of meanings—the way almost every word slips in its silvery, fishlike way, weaving this way and that, adding subtleties of nuance to itself, and then perhaps shedding them as public mood dictates.”
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The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
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