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...

Elgar: The Kingdom | Tickets Oxford After 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 performance

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...

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.

One in five Reform members want non-white Britons removed from UK, poll finds Reform members are generally ‘more pessimistic, angry and extreme than the British public’, according to the study’s author

One in five Reform members want non-white British citizens to be removed from UK, poll finds

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...

Voices from a Future Passed - on sale from 1st March The official Acorn biography, Voices from a Future Passed, put together by Rob Napier, will be available to buy from 1st March. Voices from a Future Pas

For those interested in the history of personal computing: www.riscository.com/2026/voices-...

Jonathan Eastwood (1823–64) 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...

Oh, and fun extra fact: Ernest Weekley was a schoolfriend of James Platt junior, the extraordinarily multilingual OED1 consultant. See themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/miscellaneou...

Ernest Weekley (1865–1954) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/miscellaneou...

*Lorenz

orenz Morsbach (1850–1945) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/miscellaneou...

Ah yes, that "really really long poem about everything" (David Bowie).

Thanks - I'll see what I can do.

I should mention that I've just reorganized my website so that the articles are ordered chronologically, which I think makes for a more interesting read. For those (and I hope there are many) who are keen enough to read more than one article.

Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838–1926) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/miscellaneou...

Wonderful. An attempt which succeeds admirably. Ah, but WHICH dictionary?

Delighted to find that my piece about James Platt has now been cited in S. Laker, ‘James Platt junior's contributions to Old English Grammar’, in the latest issue of Trans. Philol. Soc. (doi: 10.1111/1467-968x.70022)—first time this website has been cited in an academic paper!

George Washington Salisbury Friedrichsen (né Cohen) (1886–1979) 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-...

No Battenberg for my colleagues, but I did buy some angel cake, which has similarities, and which I prefer.

I just wished my colleagues ‘Happy First Fascicle Day’ (and urged them to eat a selection of cake et al.)—for #OnThisDay in 1884 the first fascicle of the #OED was published. Do please concelebrate in your own way.

William Moore (1838/9–1907) 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...

Henry Fillmer Rutter (1860–1936) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/miscellaneou...

Alexander Kemlo (1839–1913) 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...

Charles George Crump (1862–1935) 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-...

Thanks @simonkoppel.bsky.social. Interesting. It does indeed seem to be a bogus document; at least, it used to say so on this (now archived-only) page on the All Souls website. So that quotation needs redating. Leave it with me.... #ongoingresearch
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