Ellen Margaret Creak (1853–1937) and Thomas Gasquoine Creak (1860–1922) are my latest #OEDMakers, and here is a piece about them. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNAmembers and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-quotatio...
Peter Gilliver
@petermgilliver.bsky.social
Word person; tenor; European; British; English (Northern, and not a monkey); blissfully partnered; some other things. Views my own.
Here’s a piece about a whole group of #OEDMakers: namely the musicians. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNAmembers and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/miscellaneou...
Cornelis Stoffel (1845–1908) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here—after another gap (apologies, life continues busy)—is a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNAmembers and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-quotatio...
Frederick John Sweatman (1873–1936) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here—after a bit of a gap, for which I can only plead various distractions—is a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-editors-...
James Murray Named New UK Health Secretary? Well, I wasn't expecting that.
I'm strangely delighted to have discovered that Karl Friedrich Emich Meinrad Benedikt Fidelis Maria Michael Gerold Prinz von Hohenzollern plays sax in his own band: www.royal-groovin.de/
NYC opened a pop up The Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein Memorial Reading Room displaying 3.5 million pages of released and partially redacted Epstein files, printed into 3,437 bound volumes. Thank you artists 🏆
Carl Wilhelm Ernst (1845–1919) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/miscellaneou...
You may love your mobile, and think landlines are quaint and antiquated, but for all sorts of reasons they're still needed by many. Please consider signing. Indeed, please sign. c.org/LqYqxP4nHj
Sign the Petition
Save Our Landlines! Stop Forced Digital Switchovers! Keep Heather Safe!
c.org
Time to autotrombate again: here's me telling you almost all almost anyone could want to know about the history of the OED. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
The history of the OED: do we know our Onions (sic)?
Podcast Episode · Lexipoddery: the OED podcast · 29 April · 39min
podcasts.apple.com
I mourn the passing of Desmond Morris, anthropologist and artist. He became a great enthusiast for the #OED while living in 78 Banbury Road, the home for many years of the Dictionary’s first Editor, James Murray. I count myself privileged to have known him.
#OnThisDay 98 years ago the final fascicle (Wise to Wyzen) of the #OED was published. Not long now until the centenary....
Edgar Neels Martin (1894–1966) 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-...
Richard Stephen Charnock (1820–1905) 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...
I'm excited. And if you have a ticket (there may just be a few left) you will be too. Tonight, an evening of amazing drama, and some of the best music written by one of England's finest composers. Oh, and Elgar conducted this choir in this very piece. Come. www.ticketsoxford.com/events/elgar...
Elgar: The Kingdom | Tickets Oxford
After our performance of The Apostles in March 2025, the Oxford Bach Choir returns with the second part of our two year Elgar Project with this performance
ticketsoxford.com
Charles Bridges Mount (1827–1916) 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-...
Worth a repost. She was a very special lady.
Peter Gilliver@petermgilliver.bsky.social · last yr.Jeanne Lucie Henriette Lindley (née Cammaerts) (1923–2014) 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...
#OnThisDay in 1986, my partner Robin and I decided that the thing we had—having met in January—was a Very Good Thing. And, 40 years later, the Very Good Thing is still going. Please be happy with us.
One in five Reform members want non-white British citizens to be removed from UK, poll finds
One in five Reform members want non-white Britons removed from UK, poll finds
Reform members are generally ‘more pessimistic, angry and extreme than the British public’, according to the study’s author
independent.co.uk
Daniel Silvan Evans (1818–1903) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/miscellaneou...
For those interested in the history of personal computing: www.riscository.com/2026/voices-...
Voices from a Future Passed - on sale from 1st March
The official Acorn biography, Voices from a Future Passed, put together by Rob Napier, will be available to buy from 1st March. Voices from a Future Pas
riscository.com
Jonathan Eastwood (1823–64) 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...
Ernest Weekley (1865–1954) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/miscellaneou...
orenz Morsbach (1850–1945) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/miscellaneou...
Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838–1926) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/miscellaneou...
George Washington Salisbury Friedrichsen (né Cohen) (1886–1979) 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-...
I just wished my colleagues ‘Happy First Fascicle Day’ (and urged them to eat a selection of cake et al.)—for #OnThisDay in 1884 the first fascicle of the #OED was published. Do please concelebrate in your own way.
William Moore (1838/9–1907) 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...
