Thomas Wilson (1841–1915) 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-...

Elizabeth Ryland Trestrail (née Dent) (1813–1900) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about her. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-quotatio...

Couldn't get to sleep last night because my brain decided it was of huge importance to write lyrics to the theme tune from Fawlty Towers so here it is… (thanks brain)

Paget Jackson Toynbee (1855–1932) 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...

Richard John Lloyd (1846–1906) 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-...

Brilliant news for anyone interested in Australian culture and its history.

‘Give the man the respect due to the office he holds.’ Yes, but what if his own actions have dishonoured that office? To an unprecedented extent?

Robert Henderson Carothers (1848–1923) is my latest #OEDMaker—after a bit of a gap caused by doing yet more research on the fascinating E. S. Dodgson—and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-quotatio...

Time to autotrombate again. One of the conversations in here is with me.

Seems the BBC significantly exaggerated the Home Office case here, both in their wording on Twitter and on the broadcast itself. Home Office lawyers did *not* say this, which would be politically toxic, and play right into the hands of you know who. >

Perhaps you would expect me to sign this. I would certainly hope that you will too. www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/pe...

Charlton Huxley Walker (1873–1955) 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-...

Or even the Olympics?

Naught but a leap to the left And thanne a clockwyse tread; Put thyne handes on thyne hippes, And be thy knees yn-gatheréd: Lo, it ys the pelvique thruste That maketh mirthe down to rayne - Let us do the Tyme Warpe agayne!

Well now, this I didn’t know. (Laurence Bévenot, ‘A Memorial of Oxford Martyrs’ (Ampleforth Journal Summer 1924))

The extraordinary Edward Spencer Dodgson (1857–1922) 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...

James Creed Gilbert (1858–1938) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/miscellaneou...

In tribute to the genius of the late, great Tom Lehrer: here are the two #OED entries which quote from his brilliant, evergreen songs.

Interested to see this article in the Observer about Jennifer Dawson, whose award-winning debut novel The Ha-Ha (1961) has just been reissued: observer.co.uk/culture/book... No mention of her connection to the OED: she was…

Christopher Orlando Sylvester Mawson (1870–1938) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/miscellaneou...

James Platt junior (1861–1910) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/miscellaneou...

A #hivemind question for anyone who knows about the @uniofeastanglia: does the university still have a James Platt Centre for Language Learning? And if not, what happened to it?

Dinosaurs are so coole and thei do not even have to trye that ys just how thei are

Who will tell the histories of our shared pasts? We invite everyone to read our statement of concern on the planned downsizing of academic positions in the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences and the closure of The Australian National Dictionary via buff.ly/A5sAcbC 📷 Wikimedia Commons

Anyone who cares about the history of language, or who thinks language is an important part of a nation's culture, will be appalled at this news. I don't know how irrevocable the decision is; if you know of anyone who could join the call to keep the centre open, please let them know. /…

If only I could ‘write, oh crumbs, like the Kipling and the Dickens’. (Cincinnati Commercial Tribune 29 Dec 1902)

Eleanor Lloyd (1843–1919) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about her. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-quotatio...

John Samuel Jowett (1843–1930) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/miscellaneou...

The Tanner brothers are my latest #OEDMakers, and here’s a piece about them. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-quotatio...

Adrian Scott (1850–1905) 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...

Donald William Ferguson (1853–1910) 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...

Arthur Sannox Johnston (1863–1929) 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...

A fine poem. And, in case you want to know any more about the subject, the relevant OED entry has just been revised: www.oed.com/dictionary/b... (paywall)

Exciting news for #OEDMaker fans like me: Vol 1 of Helen Leith Spencer’s long-awaited history of the Early English Text Society is out! Lots of fascinating detail about Frederick Furnivall and numerous other early contributors to the #OED. Can’t wait to read it.

‘As he gave me back my wallet, keys, and wedding ring, my arresting officer shook my hand and said, “I support your fight. I really do.”’ Striking words from my brave friend Don, arrested yesterday while protesting against US govt action taken against Venezuelans. If the police are with you…

Ethelbert Thomas Ruthven Murray (1870–1927) 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...

So, a much older pejorative than you might have thought. This from the Lompoc (Calif.) Record of 18 Oct 1974.

It's now just a year since I autotrombated about my website http://themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com…and I see there are now over 10#OEDMakersrs on it. So I'm renewing my appeal: please mention it to relevant friends, link to it from relevant places, etc. I think some will find it of interest.

William Woodham Webb (1812–97) 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-...

Wilfred Kings (1889–1980) 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...

Roland Ainsworth Auty (1898–1967) 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...

Edmund Brock (1840–1921) 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...

Richard Halkett Lord (1843–92) 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...

Horrifying for anyone who deals with knowledge; the writer—Richard Ovenden—knows of what he speaks . Discovering that Marco Rubio is now Archivist of the United States adds to the anger I felt on hearing of the sacking of Carla Hayden. Please read/share. bit.ly/44TLiTx

Doing my best to promote it 🤞 PS do read both these volumes, they’re astonishing works of scholarship and reclamation.

Disgusting. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Harriet Toogood (née Lovell) (1815–85) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about her. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-quotatio...

John Manship Norman (1799–1888) 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...

Louisa Georgiana Walkey (née Whitmore-Jones) (1832–1915) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about her. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/miscellaneou...

You might expect me to say this, but: I think this is a VERY worthy cause, and would urge all lovers of English music, and all lovers of interesting classical music, to support it generously. #GoParry [a hashtag I never thought I'd type] www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/world-firs...