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“People & the OED”
J.R.R. Tolkien and the OED
Amid all the publicity surrounding this year’s release of the film of J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Fellowship of the Ring, it has occasionally been mentioned that Tolkien was an…
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Reading for the OED
As a reader of historical and scholarly texts for the Oxford English Dictionary, I am always alert to materials that promise to yield quotations or other information useful to the…
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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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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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