Re: Mediopassive/labile verbs; was: very confused - syntax question

John Cowan wrote:
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> "He who would take all of knowledge for his province (i.e. lexicographers)
> must frequently define what he does not understand."
>         -- I forget who, maybe J.A.H. Murray (ed. OED)
Also sounds very Johnsonian.


I've been reading _The Professor and the Madman_.   Relationship of
Murray
and Minor.

Sally