List of contributors to the Oxford English Dictionary

The following writers contributed to the Oxford English Dictionary.

Chief editors

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Chief editors of the OED[1]
Name Dates of chief editorship Notes
Herbert Coleridge 1858–61 Preliminary work. Died in office.
Frederick J. Furnivall 1861–70 Preliminary work. Resigned.
James Murray 1879–1915 1st edition. Died in office.
Henry Bradley 1915–23 1st edition. Joined 1887. Died in office.
William Craigie 1923–33 1st edition and 1st Supplement, jointly with Onions. Joined 1901.
Charles Talbut Onions 1923–33 1st edition and 1st Supplement, jointly with Craigie. Joined 1914.
Robert Burchfield 1957–86 2nd Supplement
Edmund Weiner 1985–89 2nd edition jointly with Simpson; also worked on 3rd edition. Joined 1977.
John Simpson 1985–2013 2nd edition jointly with Weiner; 3rd edition chief editor from 1993. Joined 1976.
Michael Proffitt 2013– 3rd edition. Joined 1989.

Other contributors

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Dictionary Editors". Oxford English Dictionary. Retrieved 6 March 2017.; "Dictionary milestones in reverse order". Oxford English Dictionary. Retrieved 6 March 2017.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Dirda, Michael (11 October 2023). "The most influential crowdsourcing project happened long before Wikipedia". Washington Post.
  3. ^ Hay, Daisy (19 October 2023). "Rare, Obsolete, New, Peculiar". London Review of Books.
  4. ^ Keane, Erin (22 October 2023). "Before Wikipedia, there was the Oxford English Dictionary". Salon.
  5. ^ Duncan, Dennis (13 October 2023). "In the Beginning Were the Word Nerds". The New York Times.