Sarah Ogilvie teaches at the University of Oxford, and specializes in language, dictionaries, and technology. As a lexicographer she has been an editor at the Oxford English Dictionary and was Chief Editor of Oxford Dictionaries in Australia. As a technologist she has worked in Silicon Valley at Lab 126, Amazon's innovation lab, where she was part of the team that developed the Kindle. She originally studied computer science and mathematics before taking her doctorate in Linguistics at the University of Oxford, and then taught at Cambridge and Stanford.
Marvellous… An unmissable, wonderful achievement
*Stephen Fry*
Proof that not only do our words have extraordinary lives, but so
do the people who have documented them for us. A lively,
entertaining, and illuminating read. I loved it
*Susie Dent*
Brilliant
*Philippa Perry*
Utterly fascinating, entertaining, astonishing and as clever as a
box of monkeys... I am bowled over by Sarah Ogilvie's book and
every home should have a copy. I completely love it
*Joanna Lumley*
Astonishing
*Kathryn Hughes, The Sunday Times*
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