Charlotte Brewer

Charlotte Brewer is a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, and is writing a book on Piers Plowman.

Letter

OED2

31 August 1989

I think Mark Wainwright’s letter (Letters, 28 September) confirms my point. A dictionary that announces itself as ‘the Second Edition of the most authoritative and comprehensive dictionary of English in the world’, and claims to provide ‘the first up-to-date coverage of words and meanings in one alphabetical sequence since the original edition was completed in 1928’, might do better with...

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