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Ellen Margaret Creak (1853–1937) and Thomas Gasquoine Creak (1860–1922) are my latest #OEDMakers, and here is a piece about them. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNAmembers and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-quotatio...

Here’s a piece about a whole group of #OEDMakers: namely the musicians. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNAmembers and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/miscellaneou...

RIP Dame Penelope Keith.

Cornelis Stoffel (1845–1908) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here—after another gap (apologies, life continues busy)—is a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNAmembers and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-quotatio...

Frederick John Sweatman (1873–1936) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here—after a bit of a gap, for which I can only plead various distractions—is a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-editors-...

One of those unarguable Johnson definitions.

James Murray Named New UK Health Secretary? Well, I wasn't expecting that.

I'm strangely delighted to have discovered that Karl Friedrich Emich Meinrad Benedikt Fidelis Maria Michael Gerold Prinz von Hohenzollern plays sax in his own band: www.royal-groovin.de/

Carl Wilhelm Ernst (1845–1919) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/miscellaneou...

You may love your mobile, and think landlines are quaint and antiquated, but for all sorts of reasons they're still needed by many. Please consider signing. Indeed, please sign. c.org/LqYqxP4nHj

Sign the PetitionSave Our Landlines! Stop Forced Digital Switchovers! Keep Heather Safe!c.org

Time to autotrombate again: here's me telling you almost all almost anyone could want to know about the history of the OED. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

The history of the OED: do we know our Onions (sic)?Podcast Episode · Lexipoddery: the OED podcast · 29 April · 39minpodcasts.apple.com

I mourn the passing of Desmond Morris, anthropologist and artist. He became a great enthusiast for the #OED while living in 78 Banbury Road, the home for many years of the Dictionary’s first Editor, James Murray. I count myself privileged to have known him.

#OnThisDay 98 years ago the final fascicle (Wise to Wyzen) of the #OED was published. Not long now until the centenary....

Edgar Neels Martin (1894–1966) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-editors-...

Richard Stephen Charnock (1820–1905) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-quotatio...

I'm excited. And if you have a ticket (there may just be a few left) you will be too. Tonight, an evening of amazing drama, and some of the best music written by one of England's finest composers. Oh, and Elgar conducted this choir in this very piece. Come. www.ticketsoxford.com/events/elgar...

Elgar: The Kingdom | Tickets OxfordAfter our performance of The Apostles in March 2025, the Oxford Bach Choir returns with the second part of our two year Elgar Project with this performancewww.ticketsoxford.com

Charles Bridges Mount (1827–1916) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-editors-...

Worth a repost. She was a very special lady.

#OnThisDay in 1986, my partner Robin and I decided that the thing we had—having met in January—was a Very Good Thing. And, 40 years later, the Very Good Thing is still going. Please be happy with us.

Daniel Silvan Evans (1818–1903) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/miscellaneou...