Edmund Weiner was co-editor (with John A. Simpson

John Simpson (lexicographer)

John Andrew Simpson is a British lexicographer and senior editor of the Oxford English Dictionary . Simpson was co-editor of the second edition, which ran to 20 volumes published in 1989, a combination of the original text with several supplemental volumes that had followed...

) of the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary

Oxford English Dictionary

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(1985–1989) and Deputy Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (1993–present). He originally joined the OED staff in 1977, becoming the dictionary's chief philologist

Philology

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Previously, he taught Old English, Middle English

Middle English

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 and English

English language

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 linguistic history at Christ Church, Oxford

Christ Church, Oxford

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, where he also undertook research on Middle English literature. He is now a Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford

Kellogg College, Oxford

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As well as writing or compiling a number of books on English grammar and usage, he co-authored a book on Tolkien: The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary (by Peter Gilliver

Peter Gilliver

Peter Gilliver is a lexicographer and Associate Editor of the OED.His parents were both linguists. He has a degree in Mathematics from Jesus College, Cambridge.Gilliver is working on a history of the OED.-Television:...

, Jeremy Marshall and Edmund Weiner, Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press

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, 2006, ISBN 0-19-861069-6), analysing the relationship between J.R.R. Tolkien and the OED. He and Marshall also contributed a chapter on Tolkien's invented languages to From Elvish to Klingon (edited by Michael Adams, Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press

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, 2011, ISBM 978-0-19-280709-0).

External links

• Oxford English Dictionary website entry for Edmund Weiner