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“Charles Onions”
Oxford lexicographers of the 1930s: J. L. N. O’Loughlin and Herbert Le Mesurier
As the 1930s began, after many years of being the centre of operations for the compilation of the Oxford English Dictionary, the ‘Dictionary Room’ in the Old Ashmolean, in the…
1928: the Year of the Dictionary
‘This year, whatever else it may be, is the Year of the Dictionary.’ So wrote Charles Onions in the Times of 19 April 1928, in an article celebrating the completion…
