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Edmund Weiner
Edmund S. C. Weiner (born 27 August 1950 in Oxford, England) is the former co-editor (with John A. Simpson) of the Second Edition of the ''Oxford English Dictionary'' (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.Lyall, Sarah (2000)Staid Know-It-All Goes Hip and Online; O.E.D. Enters the Dot-Com World, ''The New York Times'', 10 April 2000, retrieved 2011-07-09 Previously, he taught Old English, Middle English and English linguistic history at Christ Church, Oxford, where he also undertook research on Middle English literature. He is now a Fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford. 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, Jeremy Marshall and Edmund Weiner, Oxford University Press, 2006, ), analys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Guardian
''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister papers ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly'', ''The Guardian'' is part of the Guardian Media Group, owned by the Scott Trust. The trust was created in 1936 to "secure the financial and editorial independence of ''The Guardian'' in perpetuity and to safeguard the journalistic freedom and liberal values of ''The Guardian'' free from commercial or political interference". The trust was converted into a limited company in 2008, with a constitution written so as to maintain for ''The Guardian'' the same protections as were built into the structure of the Scott Trust by its creators. Profits are reinvested in journalism rather than distributed to owners or shareholders. It is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The editor-in-chief Katharine Viner succeeded Alan Rusbridger in 2015. Since 2018, the paper's main news ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
