Henry Hitchings

Spelling it out: the volunteers who made the dictionary

From an employee of a tram company in Birkenhead to the deeply eccentric Alexander Ellis, a celebration of the army of unpaid contributors to the first edition of the OED

Leslie Stephen, father of Virginia Woolf, was a contributor to the first edition of the OED. [Getty]
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