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“James Wyllie”

OED editors of the 1920s: Jessie Coulson and James Wyllie

Among the people who started work on the OED in the 1920s were two who went on to have careers of some significance for Oxford lexicography in very different ways:…

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“James Wyllie”

OED editors of the 1920s: Jessie Coulson and James Wyllie

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