Staff of the Oxford English Dictionary

Editorial

Chief Editor: John Simpson

Deputy Chief Editor: Edmund Weiner

Managing Editor: Michael Proffitt

Director, Editorial Projects: Penny Silva

Principal Editors: Graeme Diamond, Gillian Evans, Rosamund Ions, Emma Lenz;  Principal Etymologist: Philip Durkin; Principal Bibliographer: Veronica Hurst

Editor-at-large (North America): Jesse Sheidlower

Science Policy Coordinator: Bill Trumble

Associate Editors: Anthony Esposito (Etymology), Peter Gilliver, Alan Hughes, Sara Kirkham, Jeremy Marshall, Bernadette Paton, David Shirt, Joanna Tulloch

Senior Editors: Melinda Babcock (Manager, Library Research), Catherine Bailey, Andrew Ball, Phil Gerrish (Bibliography), Jillian Kearney, Jane Johnson (Etymology), Fiona McPherson, Katherine Connor Martin (New York), Gerard O'Reilly, Danuta Padley, John Paterson (Bibliography), Jennifer Price, Clare Senior, Tania Styles (Etymology)

Senior Assistant Editors: Sue Baines, Judith Craft, Meraud Grant Ferguson (Bibliography), Giles Goodland, Andreas Gröger (Etymology), Lisa Johnston, David Martin, Inge Milfull (Etymology), Fiona Mooring, Samantha Schad (Etymology), Katrin Thier (Etymology), Sarah Williams

Assistant Editors: Victor William Cook (Library Research), Peter Gibbard, Valerie Gorman (Library Research), Catherine Henstridge (Library Research), Richard Holden, David Karunanithy (Library Research), Eleanor Maier, Aliki Pantos, Jonjo Roberts, Richard Shapiro, Jon Ross Simon (Library Research, US), Alex Steer, Pamela Wagner (Library Research, US), Andrew Watson.

Editorial Assistants: Ruth Arstall, Owen Goodyear (Etymology), Nicolay Yakovlev (Etymology)

Management and administrative

Director: Robert Faber

Project Planner: Jane Millar

Departmental Secretary: Margot Charlton

OED Archivist: Beverley Hunt

Administrative Assistants: Cathy Bowden, Sarah Pelling, Ursula Warnecke

Sales and Marketing, Online products

Sales and Marketing Director, Online Products: Susanna Lob

Sales and Marketing Managers: Anne Kail

Sales and Marketing Executives: Machteld de Waard, Anita Joice, Paul Kelly

Sales and Marketing Coordinator: Sally Gough

Subscriptions Manager: Kirsty Lewis

Senior Customer Service Administrator: Angela Field

Customer Service Assistants: Mike Perry, Natalie Taylor

North and South America

Reference Sales and Marketing Director: Rebecca Seger

Marketing Manager, Online Products: Paige Casey

Online Sales and Support Manager: Steve Aaronson

Library Sales Director: Richard Hopper

Network/Consortia Account Manager: Alan Roseman

Inside Sales Representative: Lisa Moran

Account Services Coordinators: Shane Smith, Rachel Halko

Technology

Development Manager: Mike Monaghan

Online Project Manager: Yvonne Warburton

Software Engineer: Katrina Campbell

Online Publication Developer: Mark Dunn

Web Service Analyst: Jane Windebank

Library research

Oxford: David Banks, Carlos Canosa-Mas, Ralph Evans

London: Richard Beatty, Richard Carpenter, Jillian Dudman, Lavinia Griffiths, Lucy Hall, Matthew Holford

Glasgow: Maggie Scott

Washington, D.C.: Adriana Younskevicius

New Haven: Jane Garry

New York: Jon Danziger

Boston: Sally Hinkle

Toronto: Michelle Melady

Bibliographical research:

Karen Baston, Lynne Doy, Ralph Evans, Elizabeth Lock, Julian Lock, Graham Nicholls

Quotation reverification

Oxford: Tamara Atkin, Jack Flavell, Bob Lindsey, Anne McConnell, Beth Tovey, April Warman

London: Catherine Dille, Lesley Lawson, Jamie Whitehead

Bristol: Chris Monaghan

Etymological language checking

Gail Hemming, Tamar Nelson, Jacqueline Russom

Principal contributors to the reading programmes and quotation files

Pat Back, Colin Bagnall, Katherine Barber, Charlotte Barrow, John Birchall, Alex Bisset, Jonathan Blaney, Madeline Bonasera, Edith Bonner, Suzanne Carthy, Geoff Charters, Robert L. Cherry, Chris Collier, Victor William Cook, Charles Deodene, Susie Ford, Tony Gordon, Charlotte Graves Taylor, Jonathon Green, Alan Hartley, Freda Hughes, Edward L. Janusz (also reading-programme administration), Bernard W. Kane, Daria Kelly-Uhlig, Andrew Lintern-Ball, Duncan McAngus, Rod McConchie, Alexander McIntyre, Ruth Mateer, Ann Miner, Eleanor Niblett, Vivienne Painting, Richard Terence Porter, Bill Principe, Michael Quinion, Merle Read, David Rode, Jane Sellman, Fred Shapiro, Stuart Silverstein, Sue Surova (also reading-programme administration), Kakoli Thompson, Tabitha Tuckett, Laurence Urdang, Nicholas Warren, Jelly Williams

Many hundreds of others have contributed material occasionally or on a more regular basis to the Dictionary. Their assistance and encouragement has been invaluable to the editors.

Proof-reading

Margaret McKay

Data capture assistants

Rachel Adams, Susanne Charlett, Diane Diffley, Clive Holt, Judi Lancashire, Pam Marjara, Fabienne Pearson, Kay Pepler, Kate Tadman-Mourby, Marion Whalley

Staff history
(in alphabetical order by title)

Assistant Editors: Christopher Bailey (Etymology, -1998), Edith Bonner (-1991), John Considine (Etymology, -1996), Jason Finch (-1998), Mathew Fletcher (-1996), Jane Griffiths (-2002), Kirsten Hayman (-2000), Simon Hunt (Etymology, -1996), Marcella McCarthy (Etymology, -1999), Madeline McDonnell (New York, -2003), Judy Pearsall (-1991), Tabitha Tuckett (1997), Anthony Waddell (-1991), Jamie Whitehead (-2005)

Assistant Product Manager (US): Jill Kaderly (-2000)

Associate Editors: Georgia Hole (-1995), Elizabeth Knowles (-1993), Freda Thornton (-1995)

Chief Designer: Mike Monaghan (-1998)

Consortia Sales Managers: Rosa Perez (-2004), Jane Skober (-2003)

Customer Service Assistant: Nicola McDonough (-2004)

Data capture: (formerly) Melissa Abbots, Charlotte Barrow, Charles Blackmore, Gae Burchett-Vass, Sally Francisco, Martin Green, Lorien Kite, Jennifer Linton, Jessica Maybar, Graham Oliver, Steve Siddle, Marcia Slater, Catherine Tennant, Elizabeth Thompson, Tim Weekes, Anne Whear, Lorraine Whiting, Susan Wilkin, Roger Young

Data Capture Coordinator: Steve Siddle (-1996)

Departmental Archivist: Jenny McMorris (-2002)

Departmental Assistants: Kathy Anderson (-2005), Mary Burns (-1999), Michael Hurrell (-2005), Gladys Pepler (-1999), Clare Todd (-1999),

Departmental Librarian: Valerie Bate (-1995), Jane Jakeman (-1999)

Departmental Secretary: Bridget Morris (-1996)

Deputy Chief Editor: Penny Silva (-2001)

Deputy System Administrator: Suzanne Pinnington (-2005)

Development Manager: Laura Elliott (-2005)

Director, North American Reading Programme: Jeffery Triggs (-1999)

Editorial Assistants: Vahni Capildeo, Lucy Stone (Etymology)

Editorial Coordinator: Julia Swannell (-1991)

Etymological language checking: (formerly) Mark Atherton, Antonia Barke, Brad Bedingfield, Pietro Bortone, Alison Campbell, Raymond Edwards, Luis Gomes, Freda Hughes, Kirsten Kennedy, Marion Lupu, Artan Përnaska, Laura Pinnavaia, Tim Reid, Louise Rosen, Sophie Rowlatt, Martin Sindelar, Elizabeth Turek, Anna Wallin-Ashcroft, Simon Wickham-Smith, Dick Wortel, Jason Zerdin

Library research:  Oxford: Julie Bowdler (-1991), Jane Brownlow (-1999), Sharon Cure (-1999), Margaret Davies (-1993), Julia Esplen (-2001), Gigi Horsfield (-2003), Fleur Kinson (-2001), Joshua Pendragon (-2003);  Glasgow: Joshua Pendragon (-2006);  London: Alix Jackson (-2003), Jillian Kearney (-2000), Catherine Malone (-1998), Duncan McAngus (-2001), Patrick Vasey (-1994);  Washington, D. C.: Nancy Balz (-2001), Melissa Conway (-1991), Daphne Gilbert-Carter (-1991), Dorothy Hanks (-1996), Susan Hines (-1998), Shari Jacobson (-1996), Adriana Orr (-1991);  New Haven: Lori Bronars (-1993);  New York: Rita Keckeissen (-2003);  Kingston, Ontario: Margery Fee (-1994);  San Francisco: Ken Feinstein (-1993)

Online Product Director (US): Royalynn O'Connor (-2000)

Principal contributors to the reading programmes and quotation files: (formerly) Emma Back, Pat Baker, Joan Barker, Valerie Bate, Janet Begnoche, Sylvia Brown, Carl Buckley, Victoria Burke, Lauren Busciglio (also reading-programme administration), Liz Byrne, Alda Caparrelli, Ruth Chitty, George Chowdharay-Best, Martin Coleman, Simon Collery, P. C. Collier, Joanna Dales, Richard Dance, Catherine De'Freitas, Katheryn Doran, Mathew Englander, Stephen Eyre, Emma Fontanella, Noel Marie Gaeta, Marybeth Geanious, Alesia Goginsky, Daria Goginsky, Chris Grimshaw, Philip Hallard, David Harley, Joan Harries, Susan Hill, Joanne Hindman, Philip Hine, Bronic Holden, Amanda Holton, Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, Victoria Jansen, John Kelly, Anna Kirby, Manda Levin, Amanda Lyon, Marcella McCarthy, Sarah Mawditt, Scott Morrison, Andrea Nagy, Jennie Neary, Mary O'Donnell, J. Onoszko, Sara Pennell, Sir Edward Playfair, Rebecca Pressman, Gillian Rathbone, Stephen Redenbaugh, Vivien Redman, Susan Rennie, Allan Rostron, Johanna Schneider, Kathy Shock, David Shulman, Jean Shuttleworth, C. J. Spittall, Trish Stableford, Marcy Stamper, Matthew Steggle, Robert Sykes, Helen Triggs, Sara Triggs, Elizabeth Turek, Jenny Vince, Maeve Walsh, Peter Wexler, Mary White, Lorraine Whiting, Helen Wilkinson, Barbara Witemayer, Wayne Wunderlich, Diana Wyatt, Alexandria Zander, Stefan Zielinski

Principal Editors: James McCracken (-2001), Bernadette Paton (-2004), Michael Proffitt (-2004), Tania Young (-2001)

Project Coordinator: Carolyn Garwes (-1999), Rena Jones (-1994), Julieanne Porter (-2005), Julie Albrow (-2006)

Project Director: Timothy Benbow (-1997); Ewen Fletcher (-1999); Martin Richardson (-2001), Penny Silva (-2005)

Project Manager: Gill Walker (-2004), Rosemary Roberts (-2005)

Proof-readers: (formerly) Charlotte Barrow, Edith Bonner, Hazel Clark, Juliet Field, Janet Foot, Sara Hawker, Simon Hunt, Lisa Johnston, Helen Marriage, Patricia Moore, Rosemary Morlin, Hania Porucznik, Clare Senior, Clare Taylor; Melissa Abbots (proof collation), Susan Vickers (proof administration)

Publication Assistant: Alan Cohen (-2000)

Publication Coordinator: Lesley Blake (-2000)

Quotation reverification:  Oxford: Mark Allen (-1996), Gill Austen (-1995), Ralph Bates (-1996), Simon Collery (-1998), John Considine (-1996), Victor William Cook (-1998), Catherine Dille (-1997), Mathew Fletcher (-1994), Paul Gibbard (-1998), Gill Gilbert (-1998), Christopher Hughes (-1997), Bryn James (-1998), David James (-1997), Gordon Keable (-2003), Karen Kiessling, Eleri Larkum (-1998), Clare Loughlin (-1997), Anne McConnell, Timothy Morton (-1995), Katharine Parsons (-1995), Richard Ramage (-2004), Abigail Reynolds (-1997), Shannon Russell (-1996), Victoria Staveley (-1997), Robert White (-1994), Abigail Williams (-1997);  London: Tom Adair (-2001), Emma Back (-1997), Jocelyn Catty (-1998), Mark Dinnage (-1996), Helen Gyde (-1996), Catherine Malone (-1995), Alex Scrimgeour (-1998);  Bristol: Christopher Monaghan (-1997)  United States: Ruth Sternglantz (-1994)

Research Assistants: (formerly) Evadne Adrian-Vallance, Lucy Atkins, Emma Back, Catherine Bailey, Alexandra Barratt, Hannah Betts, John Birchall, Paromita Chakravarti, Ruth Clayton, Juliet Field, Mathew Fletcher, Patricia Greene, Gail Hemming (Etymology), Rachel Hiley, Veronica Hurst (Bibliography), David James, Keith Jebb, Peter Jenkins, Jonathan Jones, Heloise King, Barbara Levick, Elizabeth Lowry, Brian McKenna, Alistair Melville-Smith, Paul Messerschmidt, Adam Paton, Eric Peyton, Janet Phillips, Hania Porucznik, Murray Pratt, Rob Pursey, Alistair Ricketts, Ian Shiels, Nicola Smyth, Catherine Soanes, Andrew Strachan, Rebecca Sudworth, Peter Sweasey, Kate Taylor, Tabitha Tuckett, Susan Vickers, Katharine Weale

Sales and Marketing Coordinator: Charlotte Moss (-2003), David Towsey (-2005)

Sales and Marketing Executives: Hannah Baker (-2004), Pauline Dilworth (-2005), Helen Edgington (-2000), Alison Hilton (-2001), Barbara Walshe (-2004)

Senior Assistant Editors: Jemma Best (-2006), John Birchall (Etymology, -1999), Bess Bradfield (-2004), George Chowdharay-Best (Library Research, -2000), Sarah Couper (Etymology), Lynne Doy (Bibliography, -1998), Neil Fulton (Etymology, -2002), Duncan McAngus (-1999), Madeline McDonnell (New York, -2004), Paula Neudorf (New York, -2008), Sarah Ogilvie (-2005), Richard Palmer (-2000), Margaret Scott (Etymology, -2004), Judy Selfe (-1999), Angus Stevenson (-1993), Robert Sykes (-1999), Abigail Zitin (New York, -2004)

Senior Editors: Olivia Duncan (-2002), Juliet Field (-2006), Jillian Kearney (-2006), Eleanor Niblett (-2002), Nick Shearing (-2006)

Software Engineers: (formerly) Richard Akroyd, Dan Barker, Laura Elliott, Jane Few, Phil James, Frank Keenan, Jonathan Kilgour, Blaise Machin, Lisa Pearce, Linda Pratt, Tommy Wareing, Ian Wright

System Administrator: (formerly) Nick Bourner, Stuart Jenkins, John Keenan, Ian Meikle, Chris Rust

Technology Manager: James Howes (-1995), Ray Hawi (-1995), Ewen Fletcher (-1997), Richard Sabido (-1998), John Carmichael (-2001), Ande George (-2003)

Web Site Production Editor: Ben Coney (-2004)