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William Craigie

 
Dictionary: Crai·gie   (krā') pronunciation, Sir William Alexander
1876-1957.

British lexicographer and philologist who was joint editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (1901-1933).


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Meaning #1: English lexicographer who was a joint editor of the Oxford English Dictionary (1872-1966)
  Synonyms: Craigie, William A. Craigie


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Sir William Alexander Craigie (13 August 18672 September 1957) was a philologist and a lexicographer.

A graduate of the University of St Andrews, he was the third editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and co-editor (with C. T. Onions) of the 1933 supplement. From 1916 to 1925 he was also Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Oxford.

He lectured on lexicography at the University of Chicago while working on the Dictionary of American English and the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, a project he pioneered. Many twentieth-century American lexicographers studied under Craigie as a part of his lectureship, including Clarence Barnhart, Jess Stein, Woodford A. Heflin, Robert Ramsey, Louise Pound, and Allen Walker Read.

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