John Andrew Simpson

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John Andrew Simpson


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John Simpson joined the staff of the Oxford English Dictionary in the summer of 1976. He was appointed Chief Editor in 1993. He is a member of the English Faculty at Oxford and of the Philological Society (where the idea of the Dictionary was first mooted in the 1850s), and a Fellow of Kellogg College. He is a world expert on proverbs and slang, and has edited dictionaries on both these subjects for Oxford University Press; he regularly lectures and broadcasts on the English language and on the Dictionary.

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Average rating: 4.47 · 348 ratings · 51 reviews · 18 distinct works
The Oxford English Dictiona...

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A Dictionary of Proverbs

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Stone the Crows: Oxford Dic...

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The Concise Oxford Dictiona...

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The Oxford English Dictiona...

4.33 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2001 — 9 editions
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The Oxford Book of Exile

3.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 1995 — 4 editions
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Oxford English Dictionary o...

4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2009 — 2 editions
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THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONA...

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Oxford English Dictionary E...

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