Philip Durkin

Philip N. R. Durkin is a lexicographer and etymologist, Deputy Chief Editor of the Oxford [English Dictionary] and leader of its team of specialist etymology editors. His books include The Oxford Guide to Etymology and Borrowed Words: A History of Loanwords in English, and he is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Lexicography.

Education

Durkin earned a doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1994 with a thesis on late Middle English prose texts.

Career

Durkin has worked on the OED since the late 1990s and leads its etymology and form-history work. He has also held an honorary research post in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow.

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