biography
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Burchfield, Robert (William)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1923– )
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| biography:
| Scholar and lexicographer, born in Wanganui, New Zealand. He studied at Victoria University College, Wellington, and at Oxford, where he became a lecturer in English language (1952–63), then a tutorial fellow (1963–79) and senior research fellow at St Peter's College (1979–90). In 1957 he was appointed editor of a new Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary which appeared in four volumes between 1972 and 1986. He also wrote several books on the English language, and was co-author of a report (1979) on the quality of spoken English on BBC radio. |
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