Harmless drudgery: getting started at the OED
I joined the OED as an Assistant Editor in January 2006. This is how I got here, and what I’ve been doing since. I probably always knew, deep down, that…
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Balderdash and Piffle
It was several years ago that Takeaway Media approached the OED with the idea of making a series about words for BBC2. Word programmes are notoriously tricky to make for…
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Material world: the language of textiles
The English language is rich in words for fabrics and textiles imported from various regions of the world. From the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries in particular an enormous number…
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P.G. Wodehouse in the OED
Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, born in 1881, came of age at the dawn of mass culture. He was an Englishman of that generation, shaped by the Education Act of 1870, for…
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