Quote: Murray faced severe problems with space and meeting schedules: some words took most of a day, 'do' took half a year, died in 1915 with 'Turndown' completed

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It was at the proof stage also that … within the limits of space and all this … the work and the time needed was wildly … 33 words a day. Often a single word, … takes 3/4 of a day itself', and yet … [p. 295] Yet although he spoke of being 'a … for months at a time thirteen to fifteen … [p. 296] The spurt in which he felt the … the word do, begun at Christmas, proved so … [Murray worked until his death in 1915. He had just completed the double section from Trink to Turndown.] … [p. 312] Thus it was not until the beginning … to prepare 'a new English Dictionary' that the …   Google-1   Google-2

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