Oxford English Dictionary

Chief Editor: John Simpson

Deputy Chief Editor: Edmund Weiner

Editorial Staff - Volume 3

Editor: Michael Proffitt

Chief Science Editor: Alan Hughes

Chief Research Editor: Yvonne Warburton

Senior Editors (New Words): Peter Gilliver (-1994), John Paterson (Bibliographical Collation), Sara Tulloch (-1991)

Director, North American Reading Programme: Jeffery Triggs

Senior Assistant Editors (New Words): Melinda J. Babcock (Library Research), George Chowdharay-Best (Library Research), Lynne Doy (Bibliographical Collation), Rosamund Ions, Danuta Padley, Richard Palmer (-1994), Bernadette Paton (-1994), Angus Stevenson (-1993)

Assistant Editors (New Words): Edith Bonner (-1991), Eric Dann (-1987), Mathew Fletcher (-1996), Neil Fulton, Sarah Hutchinson (-1994), Emma Lenz, Jennifer Miell, Gerard O'Reilly (-1994), Judith Pearsall (-1991), Eleanor Rands, Judith Selfe, Anthony Waddell (-1991)

Project Co-ordinator: Carolyn Garwes

Departmental Secretary: Margot Charlton

Working alongside the editorial staff of the Dictionary have been numerous freelance researchers, concerned principally with tracing the earliest uses of terms and with the verification of quotations cited in the volume:

Oxford: David Banks, Julie Bowdler (-1991), Jane Brownlow, Margaret Davies (-1993), Julia Esplen, Gigi Horsfield.

London: Catherine Malone, Patrick Vasey (-1994).

Washington: Nancy Balz, Melissa Conway (-1991), Daphne Gilbert-Carter (-1991), Dorothy Hanks, Shari Jacobson, Adriana Orr (-1991), Jon Ross Simon.

New York: Rita Keckeissen.

Boston: Sally Hinkle.

New Haven: Lori Bronars (-1993).

Kingston, Ontario: Margery Fee (-1994).

San Francisco: Ken Feinstein (-1993).

Valuable additional assistance has been given by several others not on the permanent staff of the Dictionary:

Compilation of Index: Veronica Hurst.

Proof-reading: Edith Bonner, Hazel Clark, Juliet Field, Hania Porucznik.

Keyboarding: Judi Lancashire, Jennifer Linton, Graham Oliver, Susan Wilkin.

Quotation-file sorting: (*designates a former research assistant): Evadne Adrian-Vallance, Lucy Atkins*, Emma Back, Sue Baines, Alexandra Barratt*, Juliet Field*, Mathew Fletcher*, Giles Goodland, Patricia Greene*, Kirsten Hayman, Rachel Hiley*, David James, Keith Jebb, Peter Jenkins*, Lisa Johnston, Jonathan Jones*, Barbara Levick*, Brian McKenna*, Paul Messerschmidt*, Eric Peyton*, Hania Porucznik, Murray Pratt*, Rob Pursey*, Alastair Ricketts*, Clare Senior, Ian Sheils*, Nicola Smyth*, Catherine Soanes*, Andrew Strachan*, Peter Sweasey, Susan Vickers*.

The following have each contributed over 5,000 quotations to the reading programme since the publication of OED2:

Pat Back, Katherine Barber, Janet Begnoche, Alex Bisset, Chris Collier, Sue Cowen, Emma Fontanella, Noel Marie Gaeta, Marybeth Geanious, Alesia Goginsky, Daria Goginsky, Tony Gordon, Charlotte Graves Taylor, Susan A. Hill, Joanne Hindman, Victoria Jansen, Daria Kelly-Uhlig, Anna Kirby, Andrew Lintern-Ball, Ruth Mateer, Andrea Nagy, Jennie Neary, Vivienne Painting, Sir Edward Playfair, Rebecca Pressman, Michael Quinion, Gillian Rathbone, Stephen Redenbaugh, Vivien Redman, Susan Rennie, David Rode, Allan Rostron, Kathy Shock, Trish Stableford, Marcy Stamper, Sara G. Triggs, Peter Wexler, Mary White, Jelly Williams, Wayne Wunderlich.

The following have been responsible for keying material collected by the reading programme:

Charles Blackmore, Diane Diffley, Sally Francisco, Noel Marie Gaeta, Marybeth Geanious, Philip Gerrish, Martin Green, Susan A. Hill, Joanne Hindman, Daria Kelly-Uhig, Judi Lancashire, Jennifer Linton, Jessica Maybar, Andrea Nagy, Graham Oliver, David Rode, Marcia Slater, Marcy Stamper, Helen Triggs, Sara G. Triggs, Wayne Wunderlich, Alexandria Zander.

Lauren Busciglio and Sue Cowen have been responsible for the processing of over 100,000 quotations taken from the North American Reading Programme for the reading programme database in Oxford.

The Editors are also indebted to the many others who have contributed information on particular entries in the Dictionary; also to the staff of the libraries, especially the Bodleian Library, the British Library, the Library of Congress, and the New York Public Library, who have unfailingly treated the Dictionary's requests for information and assistance with courtesy and dispatch; and to Bellcore at Morristown, NJ (particularly Dr Michael Lesk and Dr Donald Walker), which generously provided resources throughout the development of the OED's North American Reading Programme.

A number of people have been involved in other aspects of the preparation of this volume. The Editors are particularly indebted to the following, who between them shared the task of reading and commenting on ranges of proofs:

Robert Barnhart, Michael Grose, Dr Philip Hardie, Terry Hoad, Deborah Honoré, Hazel Wright.

Thanks are also due to Katherine Barber and her team of lexicographers working on the Canadian Oxford Dictionary for their assistance with entries relating to Canadian English, and also for their important contribution to our reading programmes.

In addition to those listed on p. x of the first volume of the Oxford English Dictionary (second edition) and in the first volume of the OED Additions Series, valuable specialist comment on individual entries has been provided by the following:

Dr P. Baker, Ms K. Barber, Dr D. Barrett, Mr P. Beale, Mr I. M. Beestin, Dr H. C. Bennet-Clark, Mr A. Bissett, Professor J. Black, Mr R. J. Bowater, Mr A. Carr, Dr L. D. Carrington, Professor V. Castellani, Dr M. Clark, Dr S. V. Clube, Sir Howard Colvin, Ms M.-H. Corréard, Mr A. Credland, Dr Q. C. B. Cronk, Mr A. Davidson, Dr J. H. C. S. Davidson, Dr C. Davies, Dr T. Dean, Professor P. G. Drazin, Dr M. Fee, Mr W. K. V. Gale, Dr W. J. Gould, Mrs, J. Harrison, Dr P. G. Hoare, Dr T. S. Kemp, Dr P. Klenerman, Dr A. M. Lackie, Dr R. Lambourne, Mr R. P. W. Lewis, Dr T. W. A. Little, Dr A. M. MacLean, Dr T. Mahoney, Mr J. McAleer, Dr D. W. Minter, Mr C. Mitchell, Mr B. Moore, Dr D. D. Murison, Dr H. Orsman, Mr R. C. Palmer, Mr D. Parkinson, Professor A. Pawley, Mr G. Pointon, Ms J. Poke, Dr F. N. H. Robinson, Captain A. B. Sainsbury, Mr D. Shulman, Mrs P. Silva, Ms S. Slaney, Professor E. G. Stanley, Professor N. S. Sutherland, Dr S. S. Strickland, Dr G. P. Thomas, Mrs S. K. Tulloch, Dr C. Upton, Lord Walton of Detchant, Mr K. Whyld, Professor J. D. A. Widdowson, Professor M. V. Wilkes, Mr T. Wilson, Professor J. C. Wright, Dr R. Wynne-Davies.

The Editors are sad to record the deaths during the preparation of the volume of Dr H. M. Rosenberg and Mr W. K. V. Gale, long-standing consultants to the Dictionary, and of Dr Donald Walker, formerly of Bellcore at Morristown, NJ, who assisted greatly in the development of the North American Reading Programme.

It is with great sadness that we record the death in June 1996 of Mathew Fletcher of our editorial staff. Much of his work for the Dictionary has still to appear in print, but his contribution to this and future OED publications will stand as an enduring testament to his outstanding talents and as a reminder to those fortunate enough to have known him.

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