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A look back on our 90th anniversary celebrations
With the ink freshly dried on the final pages of the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary, an extraordinary mission begun over 60 years prior to compile a comprehensive…
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:…
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…
