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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 1d

The elusive H. S. Bhide is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/miscellaneou...

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 5d

And 10 months later it's grown considerably: over 150 names featured, many of them with (I'd say) fascinating lives. Please take a look—try picking a name at random—and share/link to the website if you know anyone interested in the #OED or its history. (Yes, I'm autotrombating again.)

Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · May 12

Time to put out a reminder, and a plea, about my—still v rudimentary—website for pieces about @OED people: themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com
The reminder: it exists, and is steadily growing (currently c.40 articles).
The plea: please let everyone know about it who you think would be interested.

The Makers of the Oxford English Dictionary

An experimental site for my writing about the people who created the Oxford English Dictionary.

themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 5d

William Henry Fox Talbot (1800–77) is my latest #OEDMaker—sort of—and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/miscellaneou...

Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 6d

#OTD in 1900 Elgar's "The Dream of Gerontius" was first performed. "The best of [him]" indeed: a very special piece.

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 7d

I just donated. If you love cathedral music, or choral music, or both—and I know many of you do—please join me, Aled Jones, Rhiannon Mathias, and the dozens of others who have done likewise. We're nearly at the target!
www.gofundme.com/f/save-bango...

Donate to Save Bangor Cathedral Choir - Achubwch Côr Cadeirlan Bangor, organized by Simon Ogdon

[Fersiwn Gymraeg isod] Bangor Cathedral has been through a… Simon Ogdon needs your support for Save Bangor Cathedral Choir - Achubwch Côr Cadeirlan Bangor

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 9d

I guess I should share this, as I'm in it. On the other hand, if you read it and don't think you'll be interested in the conversations with any of the other lexicographers in the book, then you're that much less likely to buy the book. But what the hell.
lithub.com/how-to-build...

How to Build a Dictionary: On the Hard Art of Popular Lexicography

At the end of the ﬁrst quarter of the twenty-ﬁrst century, about 400 million people are native English speakers. With those for whom English is a second language, the number reaches far above: betw…

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 10d

Thomas Wilson (1841–1915) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-editors-...

Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 11d

Elizabeth Ryland Trestrail (née Dent) (1813–1900) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about her. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-quotatio...

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 14d

Who can blame them?

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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 15d

Couldn't get to sleep last night because my brain decided it was of huge importance to write lyrics to the theme tune from Fawlty Towers so here it is…
(thanks brain)

The sheet music for Fawlty towers. Underneath it (in the correct places) is written:
Won’t you come and stay in our hotel, Where things they may not go so very well, 
As Basil…

The sheet music for Fawlty towers continues... Underneath it (in the correct places) is written:
…shouts and cries
While Sybil rolls her eyes
And Polly tries to help Manuel
(Please don’t ring the bell)

There’s a rat that’s being hid a–

The sheet music for Fawlty towers continues... Underneath it (in the correct places) is written:

–waaaay
Oh and a salad that’s seen better days
Oh there’s a missing door and
Please don’t mention war
And then you’re…

The sheet music for Fawlty towers continues... Underneath it (in the correct places) is written:

Sure – to have – a pleas–ant. stay.

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 15d

Paget Jackson Toynbee (1855–1932) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-quotatio...

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 19d

Richard John Lloyd (1846–1906) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-editors-...

Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 21d

Brilliant news for anyone interested in Australian culture and its history.

Australian National Dictionary Centre @ozworders.bsky.social · 21d

We were very pleased to get the news today that the Australian National Dictionary Centre will be saved, thanks to an anonymous donation and the halt on involuntary redundancies under the Renew ANU plan. We thank everyone for their generous support through these difficult times.

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 22d

‘Give the man the respect due to the office he holds.’ Yes, but what if his own actions have dishonoured that office? To an unprecedented extent?

Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 25d

Robert Henderson Carothers (1848–1923) is my latest #OEDMaker—after a bit of a gap caused by doing yet more research on the fascinating E. S. Dodgson—and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-quotatio...

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · 28d

Time to autotrombate again. One of the conversations in here is with me.

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Dr Bendor Grosvenor FRHistS @bendorgrosvenor.bsky.social · Aug 29

Seems the BBC significantly exaggerated the Home Office case here, both in their wording on Twitter and on the broadcast itself. Home Office lawyers did *not* say this, which would be politically toxic, and play right into the hands of you know who. >

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · Aug 27

Perhaps you would expect me to sign this. I would certainly hope that you will too. www.megaphone.org.au/petitions/pe...

Petition to ANU Council

In support of our petition, we observe that:  • ANU Council has the entire control and management of the University and is required to act in all matters concerning the ANU in the way it thinks w...

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · Aug 19

We must do what we can to keep the stocks of herbs at the King's London residence fully replenished. One herb in particular. #SupportPalaceThymeAction

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · Aug 18

…Dodgson was robbed of his clothes by a young man he propositioned on the beach, and ran naked into a local convent, causing consternation. Not an image I shall ever forget.

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · Aug 18

E. S. Dodgson continues to fascinate. I've just received the following extraordinary story from a very helpful correspondent (apparently recounted in a dissertation at the University of Pau—I'd be grateful if anyone can help with obtaining more from that source): on one occasion…

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · Aug 16

Charlton Huxley Walker (1873–1955) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-editors-...

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · Aug 15

Or even the Olympics?

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · Aug 15

we need this on uk tv asap

Joe G @eastendjoe.bsky.social · Aug 15

Watching German Shopping cart archery can be very satisfying.

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Chaucer Doth Tweet @levostregc.bsky.social · Aug 14

Naught but a leap to the left
And thanne a clockwyse tread;
Put thyne handes on thyne hippes,
And be thy knees yn-gatheréd:
Lo, it ys the pelvique thruste
That maketh mirthe down to rayne -
Let us do the Tyme Warpe agayne!

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Peter Gilliver @petermgilliver.bsky.social · Aug 13

I certainly would! Thank you.