The Dictionary People: The unsung heroes who created the Oxford English Dictionary
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Sarah Ogilvie (Author)
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Sarah Ogilvie teaches at the University of Oxford, and specializes in language, dictionaries, and technology. As a lexicographer she has been an editor at the Oxford English Dictionary and was Chief Editor of Oxford Dictionaries in Australia. As a technologist she has worked in Silicon Valley at Lab 126, Amazon's innovation lab, where she was part of the team that developed the Kindle. She originally studied computer science and mathematics before taking her doctorate in Linguistics at the University of Oxford, and then taught at Cambridge and Stanford.
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- Contributor: Sarah Ogilvie
- Imprint: Chatto & Windus
- ISBN13: 9781784744939
- Number of Pages: 384
- Packaged Dimensions: 162x240x35mm
- Packaged Weight: 611
- Format: Hardback
- Publisher: Vintage Publishing
- Release Date: 2023-09-07
- Binding: Hardback
- Biography: Sarah Ogilvie teaches at the University of Oxford, and specializes in language, dictionaries, and technology. As a lexicographer she has been an editor at the Oxford English Dictionary and was Chief Editor of Oxford Dictionaries in Australia. As a technologist she has worked in Silicon Valley at Lab 126, Amazon's innovation lab, where she was part of the team that developed the Kindle. She originally studied computer science and mathematics before taking her doctorate in Linguistics at the University of Oxford, and then taught at Cambridge and Stanford.
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