423 - The Making of the Oxford Dictionary: a Tale of Murder and Insanity

Do Go On

Matt Stewart, Jess Perkins & Dave Warneke

Fact, History, Facts, Comedy

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🗓️ 29 November 2023

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Creating the Oxford English Dictionary was a mammoth task and the story takes some surprising twists and turns! This is the most voted for topic for this year's Blocktober, enjoy!

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REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING:

forgottennewsmakers.com/2010/11/08/dr-william-minor-1834-1920-insane-doctor-who-contributed-to-the-oxford-english-dictionary

britannica.com/topic/The-Oxford-English-Dictionary

oed.com/information/about-the-oed/history-of-the-oed/?tl=true

abc.net.au/news/2020-04-09/history-of-the-oxford-english-dictionary/12010628

hindustantimes.com/hollywood/the-mad-murderous-origins-of-the-oxford-english-dictionary/story-x9LpDO47RYfbqxvo4w9QwM.html

baumanrarebooks.com/blog/story-behind-creation-oxford-english-dictionary/

smh.com.au/culture/books/the-word-nerds-who-lived-and-died-for-the-oxford-english-dictionary-20230904-p5e1tv.html

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0:35.0	as always I'm here with Jess Perkins
0:40.0	Hello and
0:45.0	thank you Dave and welcome to you too Dave and yes and thank you.
0:49.0	Quick question how good is it to be alive.
0:51.0	A question that hasn't been posed for a while and I would like to consider it and I think my answer is I wish I was never born.
1:00.0	Well this week I'm going to jump on mat's side because this is big people.
1:04.6	Okay. We've been counting... This is big people. Yeah. This isn't for children.
1:10.2	To a person. No, this is an adult podcasting now.
1:14.0	A young ears turn off.
1:16.0	I don't have pants on.
1:18.0	Whoa.
1:19.0	And we've warned you, okay?
1:20.0	No, this is big, we've been counting down the biggest topics of the year for the last eight weeks.
1:27.0	And it all comes down to this. The number one most voted for topic of Blockbuster Toba slash Blo-Vember,
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