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Frederick James Furnivall

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Noun1.Frederick James Furnivall - English philologist who first proposed the Oxford English Dictionary (1825-1910)


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Tolkien, Civil War surgeon William Chester Minor, the eccentric Frederick James Furnivall, and a clutch of lexicographers at the Ashmolean Library to provide vision and accuracy in assuring dictionary users the most fastidious examination of every word in the language.
The latter, it is worth remembering, had been founded by Frederick James Furnivall out of a democratic idea of education.
 
 
 
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