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i'm looking for a book title,its a book about a man who submitted thousands of words to websters dictionary?

i saw part of an interview years ago on the martha stewart show

about a man who had submitted thousands of words to websters dictionary, and he was in an insane asylum i like to know the name of the book written about this man

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    It prpbably was not Webster's dictionary.

    It was probably the Oxford English dictionary.

  • 6 years ago

    Simon Winchester wrote The Professor and the Madman: a tale of murder, insanity and the making of the Oxford English dictionary

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