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Edmund Weiner, Deputy Chief Editor, OED
Edmund was Co-Editor with John Simpson of the Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary and is now Deputy Chief Editor. He is a member of the English Faculty at Oxford, and a Fellow of Kellogg College. He has a particular responsibility for the linguistic aspects of the dictionary text, as well as for words borrowed from unfamiliar languages. He invented a phonetic alphabet at the age of eleven and spent his teens collecting alphabets, trying to teach himself languages, or inventing his own, inspired by the works of J. R. R. Tolkien.
