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Thousands of slips of paper poured into Murray’s "Scriptorium" (a corrugated iron shed in his garden). Perhaps the most prolific contributor was Dr. William Chester Minor, an American surgeon living in England. Minor contributed thousands of quotations with incredible precision. For years, Murray assumed Minor was a retired gentleman of leisure.

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Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the definitive record of the English language, tracing the evolution of words from their earliest known usage to the present day. While often accessed via OED Online Thousands of slips of paper poured into Murray’s