The Oxford English Dictionary · The OED means a whole lot to me; professionally, I owe it everything. My work on it was 26 (!) years ago, but then this spring I got an invitation to their Symposium, which happened last week, and there was only one possible answer. I’m profoundly grateful they asked, and would do it again in a flash. This entry, like the OED, is extreme in length and prone to rambling; but, I hope, also like the dictionary in that it might provide pleasure to people who like words for their own sake ... [5 comments]
Oxford Visuals · I went for a couple days for the OED Symposium (about which I have a huge ongoing splodge in progress) and of course took a camera ... [1 comment]
