Is it a felony of lexicographic fecklessness or merely a misdemeanor of misunderstood motives? Word guardians have been up in arms during the past week over claims in a new book about the Oxford ...
In a shocking disclosure revealed by Alison Flood in the Guardian this week, the most venerable of dictionaries, the Oxford English, may be embroiled in quite the scandal. Or is it? From Flood, ...
Word guardians have been up in arms over claims in a new book about the Oxford English Dictionary, which asserts that one of its former editors, Robert Burchfield, surreptitiously expunged hundreds of ...
LONDON — Robert Burchfield, an innovative lexicographer who was chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionaries from 1971 to 1984, has died, the Oxford University Press announced Tuesday. He was 81.
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