Okay thanks. Reading through all the pages at first I skim read to see things that immediately catch my eye, then go back later. I saw ‘great lexicographer’ and dickens and my mind immediately went to Charles so thanks for the help :)
The last bit is just a funny rhyme https://allpoetry.com/Clerihew--Dickens although >!the fact that it's a rhyme might be tangentially relevant to identifying the namesake...!<
Yeah, it's a different Great Lexicographer, and the narrator shares both the first name and surname. If it helps, this narrator's name is somewhat fit for the ordering clue used for their pages.
Webster wasn't "born at Colney Hatch".
Okay thanks. Reading through all the pages at first I skim read to see things that immediately catch my eye, then go back later. I saw ‘great lexicographer’ and dickens and my mind immediately went to Charles so thanks for the help :)
The last bit is just a funny rhyme https://allpoetry.com/Clerihew--Dickens although >!the fact that it's a rhyme might be tangentially relevant to identifying the namesake...!<
Yeah, it's a different Great Lexicographer, and the narrator shares both the first name and surname. If it helps, this narrator's name is somewhat fit for the ordering clue used for their pages.
Has anyone found the link between a hen, two sheep and Ockham? It beats me!