Books by Peter Gilliver
Peter Gilliver has been an editor of the Oxford English Dictionary since 1987 and is one of its most experienced lexicographers. He has been writing and speaking about the history of the OED for over fifteen years.
Interviews with Peter Gilliver
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Caught in the Web of Words: James Murray and the Oxford English Dictionary
by K. M. Elisabeth Murray -
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The Collected Papers of Henry Bradley
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The Surgeon of Crowthorne: A Tale of Murder, Madness and the Oxford English Dictionary
by Simon Winchester -
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The Study of Language in England, 1780-1860
by Hans Aarsleff -
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The Scholar's Daughter
by Beatrice Harraden
The best books on The Oxford English Dictionary, recommended by Peter Gilliver
The best books on The Oxford English Dictionary, recommended by Peter Gilliver
It's a dictionary that seeks to document any word that exists—or ever existed—in the English language and track its evolution over time. Lexicographer Peter Gilliver chooses books to help understand the enormous undertaking that is the Oxford English Dictionary.
