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Michael Proffitt - Lexicographer
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Michael Proffitt

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Michael Proffitt is a British lexicographer who became chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary in 2013. He oversees the continuing revision of the OED, a historical dictionary that documents the development, meanings, and recorded uses of English words through dated evidence. His work is aimed at maintaining the dictionary as a scholarly record of English while adapting its research and publication processes to a primarily digital format.

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