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Oxford lexicographers of the 1950s: Raymond Goffin, Jennifer Dawson, and Joyce Hawkins
The 1950s saw the resumption of English-language lexicography at Oxford University Press after a hiatus of two decades. Senior figures at OUP came to the conclusion that it was time…
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…
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:…
