These days I don’t read many novels although occasionally I have to read one for my book group. Recently our daughter lent me one she thought I might like. A couple of years ago she had given me The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester. It was about the editor of the first edition of the Oxford Dictionary and one of the many volunteers who supplied words and examples of their usage; this particular volunteer was confined to the Broadmoor asylum.
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