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The Professor and the Madman

Harold, about your useof words

Harold, about your use
of words

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Harold, about your use of words...
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00:06:17
Uploaded
Jun 12, 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...
In the paper, a dreadful story, a shooting in Lambeth... - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
In the paper, a dreadful story, a shooting in Lambeth...
And that poor woman left behind with six children. - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
And that poor woman left behind with six children.
Yes! That's it, that's it! - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
Yes! That's it, that's it!
Yes, yes! How's that, you ensanguined mule? - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
Yes, yes! How's that, you ensanguined mule?
I wish to state that I possess a general lexical... - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
I wish to state that I possess a general lexical...
And literature of the Aryan and Syro-Arabic classes. - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
And literature of the Aryan and Syro-Arabic classes.
I am aware of the word. Schooling? - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
I am aware of the word. Schooling?
Honestly, Freddie, it's a bit much. - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
Honestly, Freddie, it's a bit much.
This great tongue of ours, which reaches out across the world... - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
This great tongue of ours, which reaches out across the worl...
And we, with our debates ad nauseam about the scope... - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
And we, with our debates ad nauseam about the scope...
But thrown ourselves down in supplication before it... - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
But thrown ourselves down in supplication before it...
Bathed in abject defeat. - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
Bathed in abject defeat.
I submit that the extraordinary, the unconventional... - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
I submit that the extraordinary, the unconventional...
Mr. Murray is the solution and our salvation. - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
Mr. Murray is the solution and our salvation.
Your account, though a bit dramatic, is true, Freddie. - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
Your account, though a bit dramatic, is true, Freddie.
But we need something more than impassioned advocacy. - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
But we need something more than impassioned advocacy.
Qualifications come to mind. Perhaps a Bachelor's Degree. - The Professor and the Madman 00:05
Qualifications come to mind. Perhaps a Bachelor's Degre...
Qualifications yes - The Professor and the Madman 00:51
Qualifications yes
Of the Romance tongues, Italian, French, Spanish... - The Professor and the Madman 00:04
Of the Romance tongues, Italian, French, Spanish...
Mr. Murray, a word comes to mind... clever. - The Professor and the Madman 00:06
Mr. Murray, a word comes to mind... clever.