D'oh ee dee ...

[Terrance]

"In the sixteenth century in England,
dictionaries such as we would recognize today
simply did not exist."

"If Shakespeare did not happen to know
very much about elephants, which was 
likely, and if he were unaware of this 
curious habit of naming hotels after
them--justwhere could he look the 
the question up?"


'The Professor and the Madman' by Simon Winchester

Winchester's book is worth reading and 
he makes use of elephants. I think
the answer to Winchester's question is 
Pliny. 

Winks and strong hugs, 

Jane

Dennis Pack wrote:
> 
> I read The Prof & the Madman. I enjoyed it...a peculiar take on the OED,
> indeed.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave Monroe" <davidmmonroe at yahoo.com>
> To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 18, 2001 1:50 AM
> Subject: D'oh ee dee ...
> 
> > "The new phone book's here, the new phonebook's here,
> > I'm somebody now!" ...
> >
> > http://www.oed.com/public/news/0106b.htm#doh
> >
> > And, er, keep in mind, OEDipa Maas.  By the way,
> > anyone here read Simon Winchester's The Professor and
> > the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making
> > of the Oxford English Dictionary (San Francisco:
> > HarperCollins, 1998)?  A friend of mine keeps
> > pestering me about it, so ...
> >
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