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The 125th and last fascicle covered words from Wise to the end of W and was published on 19 April 1928, and the full dictionary in bound volumes followed immediately. [19] :xx William Shakespeare is the most-quoted writer in the completed dictionary, with Hamlet his most-quoted work. George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) is the most-quoted female writer. Collectively, the Bible is the most-quoted work (in many translations); the most-quoted single work is Cursor Mundi. [7] Biographical information on individuals connected with the First Edition of the OED and the 1933 Supplement An exhilarating aspect of a living language is that it continually changes. This means that no dictionary is ever really finished. After fifty years of work on the first iteration of the Dictionary, the editors must have found this exhausting to contemplate. Nevertheless, as soon as the original ten volumes were completed, the remaining two editors, Craigie, and Onions, began to compile a single-volume Supplement to the Dictionary, published in 1933. At the same time, the First Edition was re-issued in twelve volumes and the work was formally given its current title – the Oxford English Dictionary. Green, Jonathon; Cape, Jonathan (1996), Chasing the Sun: Dictionary Makers and the Dictionaries They Made (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-224-04010-5

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Harris, Roy (1982). "Review of RW Burchfield A Supplement to the OED Volume 3: O–Scz". TLS. 3: 935–936. Murray had estimated that the entire Dictionary would take ten years to complete. After five years, the first part (or fascicle to use the technical term) was issued in 1884. It covered A-ant which made clear that a much more comprehensive work was being produced than had been imagined by the Philological Society almost thirty years earlier. In fact, Dictionary work relied on so much correspondence that a post box was installed right outside Murray’s Oxford home, where it still stands today. A new authority on language

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