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Mr Edmund Weiner

Emerita/Emeritus Fellow, Fellow

Deputy Chief Editor, Oxford English Dictionary

MA (Oxford)

Edmund Weiner is a senior member of the editorial team at the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). He has been a member of staff of the OED since 1977. He has worked successively on the Supplement to the OED, the digitization and publication of the Second Edition of the OED (co-edited with John Simpson), and the current Online OED.  He has special responsibility for the grammatical aspects of the OED and (with the senior editorial team) for finalizing the text for quarterly publication. He has also published several works on English grammar and usage and has taught the history of the English language for a number of Oxford University summer schools.

His research and lecturing interests include English etymology, the language of early modern non-literary documents, and the vocabulary of J. R. R. Tolkien.

As part of the OED team he has shared responsibility for many new and revised entries published in OED Online, and especially for grammatical (or function) words such as BE, SO, and UP.Publications (selected)

With Peter Gilliver and Jeremy Marshall, The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary. OUP, 2006.
The Electronic OED: the Computerization of a Historical Dictionary in A. P. Cowie (ed.) The Oxford History of English Lexicography, Volume I, pp. 378-409. OUP, 2009.
With Jeremy Marshall, Tolkien’s Invented Languages in M. Adams “From Elvish to Klingon”, pp. 75–110. OUP, 2011.