#3.The Oxford English Dictionary was largely created by a murderer William Chester Minor while he was at a mental asylum.
W.C. Minor (1834-1920) was an American surgeon who was serving in the army during Battle of the Wilderness in 1864.Being part of the American Civil War has left a big mark on him,and caused him to become delusional,which led him to fatally shooting a man in 1872 for believing he broke into his home.He plead for insanity and was put in the asylum in Berkshire,UK,where he had privileges of reading books.
His contact with bookstores was probably how he heard that volunteers are needed for what will later become the Oxford English Dictionary.Minor was one of the hardworking volunteers,acknowledge to give second best contribution to the Dictionary before his delusions got the better of him and forced him to cut off his own penis.
