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The Professor and the Madman

Broadmoor Asylum

Broadmoor Asylum

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Broadmoor Asylum.
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Timestamp in Movie
00:15:01
Uploaded
Jun 10, 2025
Genres
biography, drama, history
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Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid-19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William M...
The Home Secretary wouldn't be bamboozled into accepting. - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
The Home Secretary wouldn't be bamboozled into acceptin...
Written... in the Athenaeum... in a single sentence! - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
Written... in the Athenaeum... in a single sentence!
Your book, Mr. Murray, will need to establish strict rules... - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
Your book, Mr. Murray, will need to establish strict rules.....
Sufficiently refined that it can henceforward only deteriorate. - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
Sufficiently refined that it can henceforward only deteriora...
You, Max? Me? No. - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
You, Max? Me? No.
All words are valid in the language. - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
All words are valid in the language.
The book must inventory every word, every nuance... - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
The book must inventory every word, every nuance...
Every twist of etymology and every possible illustrated... - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
Every twist of etymology and every possible illustrated...
Volunteers. We have tried it before, James, and failed. - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
Volunteers. We have tried it before, James, and failed.
I'm afraid there aren't enough academics in the land. - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
I'm afraid there aren't enough academics in the la...
Where do you propose finding a thousand men? - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
Where do you propose finding a thousand men?
In every book shop, school, workplace or home. - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
In every book shop, school, workplace or home.
In search of the words that we want, and get them to write... - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
In search of the words that we want, and get them to write.....
The word on a slip of paper, along with a quotation... - The Professor and the Madman 00:06
The word on a slip of paper, along with a quotation...
That they have found illustrating the very word. - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
That they have found illustrating the very word.
An entire army covering the breadth of the Empire... - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
An entire army covering the breadth of the Empire...
Still edited by us, learned men. - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
Still edited by us, learned men.
How long do you estimate to finishing your task? - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
How long do you estimate to finishing your task?
Dear England... - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
Dear England...
His ideas are quite radical, just what we need. - The Professor and the Madman 00:07
His ideas are quite radical, just what we need.