James Murray (lexicographer)

thumb| Sir James Augustus Henry Murray, FBA (7 February 1837 – 26 July 1915) was a British lexicographer and philologist. He was the primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) from 1879 until his death. Quotes I feel that in many respects I and my assistants are simply pioneers, pushing our way experimentally through an untrodden forest, where no white man's axe has been before us. "Thirteenth Address to the President, to the Philological Society" (16 May 1884), in Transactions of the Philological Society, 1882–4 (1885), p. 509 The circle of the English language has a well-defined centre but no discernible circumference. A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles, vol. 1 (1888), p. xvii Quotations will tell the full measure of meaning — if you have enough of them. Reported in John Lloyd; John Mitchinson (eds.) Advanced Banter (2008), epigraph External links Category:1837 births Category:1915 deaths Category:Academics from Scotland Category:Fellows of the British Academy Category:Philologists Category:Lexicographers Category:Editors from Scotland Category:Members of the American Philosophical Society