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“James Murray”
Rewriting the OED
Today’s OED offices in Oxford and New York are a hive of lexicographical activity. Over seventy editors work on updating the text of the dictionary for its Third Edition (2000-)….
Dictionary Editors
In this section we give brief biographies of the chief editors of the Oxford English Dictionary.
Dictionary Milestones
A chronology of events relevant to the history of the OED 1857 At the suggestion of Frederick J. Furnivall, the Philological Society of London establishes ‘a Committee to collect unregistered…
January 1880 Appeal
Welcome to the facsimile text of the third edition of James Murray’s Appeal to the English-speaking and English-reading public, issued in June 1879. The first and second editions are also…