biography
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Onions, C(harles) T(albut)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1873–1965)
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| biography:
| Scholar and lexicographer, born in Edgbaston, West Midlands, C England, UK. He was commissioned to revise and complete the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, eventually published in 1933 and which he continued to revise and enlarge until 1959. Reader in English philology at Oxford University (1927–49), and editor of the journal Medium Aevum (1932–56), his last great work was as leader of the team which produced the Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology (1966). |
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