FACTOID #53: If you thought Antarctica was inhospitable, think again - its land area is only ninety-eight percent ice. Reassuringly, the other 2% is categorised as "barren rock".
Charles Talbut Onions (C.T. Onions) (1873-1965) was an English grammarian and lexicographer. 1873 was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1965 was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... Grammar is the study of the rules governing the use of a language. ... A lexicographer is a person devoted to the study of lexicography, especially an author of a dictionary. ...
He joined James Murray on the staff of the Oxford English Dictionary at Oxford in 1895 and in 1914 he began independent editorial work with his own assistants. His A Shakespeare Glossary was published in 1911. He co-edited the 1933 Supplement with William Craigie. Following the death of William Little in 1922, he assumed the editorship of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. His last work is The Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology (1966), which was published posthumously and is generally considered to be the standard work on the subject. Sir James Augustus Henry Murray (1837-1915) was a Scottish lexicographer and philologist. ... The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is a comprehensive dictionary published by the Oxford University Press (OUP). ... William Craigie (1867 - 1957) was a philologist and a lexicographer. ... William Little was an English surgeon who, in the 1860s, identified Cerebral palsy in children. ... 1922 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, often abbreviated to SOED, is a scaled-down version of the Oxford English Dictionary. ...
Born in Edgbaston, (now in the West Midlands), he received his M.A. at the University of London and an honorary doctorate from Oxford. He was a fellow and librarian of Magdalen College, Oxford and a corresponding fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. He was editor of the journal Medium Aevum from 1932 to 1956. Edgbaston constituency shown within Birmingham Edgbaston is an area in Birmingham, England. ... Senate House, designed by Charles Holden home to the universitys central administration offices and its library The University of London is a federation of colleges which together constitute one of the worlds largest universities. ... The University of Oxford, located in the city of Oxford, England, is the oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... Magdalen College (pronounced ) is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. ... 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... 1956 was a leap year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...