Peter Gilliver
| Peter Gilliver |
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| Born |
14 June 1964(1964-06-14) |
| Occupation |
Lexicographer |
| Nationality |
British |
Peter Gilliver (born 14 June 1964) is a lexicographer and Associate Editor of the OED. His parents were both linguists. He has a degree in Mathematics from Jesus College, Cambridge.[1]
Gilliver is working on a history of the OED.[2]
Gilliver, a longtime editor who also seems to be the OED’s resident historian, points out that the dictionary feels obliged to include words that many would regard simply as misspellings. No one is particularly proud of the new entry as of December 2003 for nucular, a word not associated with high standards of diction. “Bizarrely, I was amazed to find that the spelling n-u-c-u-l-a-r has decades of history,” Gilliver says. “And that is not to be confused with the quite different word, nucular, meaning ’of or relating to a nucule.’”
— Cyber-neologoliferation, James Gleick, New York Times, 2006
Credits
Television
- ^ New York Times Magazine, 5 November 2006
- ^ A history of the OED, OED News, March 2005
Bibliography of works
- Gilliver, Peter (2007), "The Great Un- Crisis: An Unknown Episode in the History of the OED.", in Considine, John, Words and Dictionaries from the British Isles in Historical Perspective, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 166–177, ISBN 1847181686
- Gilliver, Peter; Marshall, Jeremy; Weiner, Edmund (2006), The Ring of Words, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0198610696
- Gilliver, Peter (2006), "Billy Sunday: A New Source for "Oxen of the Sun"", James Joyce Quarterly (University of Tulsa) 44.1: 133, ISSN 00214183, OCLC 144575793
- Gilliver, Peter (2004), That Brownest of Brown Studies: The Work of the Editors and In-House Staff of the Oxford English Dictionary in 1903, , Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America 25: 44–64, ISSN 01976745, http://oed.hertford.ox.ac.uk/main/images/stories/articles/gilliver2004.pdf
- Gilliver, Peter (2000), "Appendix II: OED Personalia", in Mugglestone, Lynda, Lexicography and the Oxford English Dictionary: Pioneers in the Untrodden Forest., Oxford University Press, pp. 232–252, ISBN 0199251959
- Gilliver, Peter (1995), "At the Wordface: J.R.R. Tolkien's Work on the Oxford English Dictionary", in Reynolds, Patricia, Proceedings of the J.R.R. Tolkien Centenary Conference, 1992, The Mythopoeic Press / The Tolkien Society, pp. 173–186, ISBN 1887726047, http://dictionary.oed.com/newsletters/2002-06/tolkien.html
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British lexicographer |
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14 June 1964 |
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