Peter Gilliver

 ( British Lexicographers ) 

Peter Gilliver (born 14 June 1964) is a lexicographer and associate editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.

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Career Gilliver's parents were both linguists. He attended Barnard Castle School, and has a degree in Mathematics from Jesus College, Cambridge, The New York Times Magazine, 5 November 2006 and a qualification in Information Science from Liverpool.

As of 2013, he was responsible for the largest three or four entries in the then-current electronic revision, including the then largest (that for "run", which took him over 9 months and has 645 meanings for the verb form alone).

In 2016 Gilliver published a history of the OED, which took most of the previous decade to write.

He and his partner sing in various choirs, including the Oxford Bach Choir (which they came to administer by 2021), and Fiori Musicali.

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Credits

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Television

2006–2007

12 July & 6 September 2004

18 December 2003

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Publications

• Peter Gilliver (1995). 9781887726047, Mythopoeic Press/Tolkien Society. . ISBN 9781887726047
• Peter Gilliver (2025). 9780199251957, Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199251957
• (2025). 9780199568369, Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199568369
• Peter Gilliver (2025). 9781847181688, Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 9781847181688
• Peter Gilliver (2025). 9780199283620, Oxford University Press. . ISBN 9780199283620

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See also

• Oxford English Dictionary
• John Simpson (lexicographer)
• Edmund Weiner

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External links

• (video) 14th stop: Newcastle: A different English accent - a discussion on regional accents (and whether they get into the OED) 2019-11-17:
• Icons article on Peter Gilliver

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