Dr Ogilvie, who is also a research fellow in linguistics at Oxford University, calls the OED the "great crowdsourcing project" of the late 1800s. "It was the Wikipedia of the 19th century," she ...

Sarah Ogilvie’s sprightly “The Dictionary People” pays tribute to the explorers, suffragists, murderers and ordinary citizens who helped create the Oxford English Dictionary.

In 2014 , Sarah Ogilvie made a farewell visit to the archives of the Oxford English Dictionary, where she had worked as an editor. Opening a dusty box, she discovered the address book of James ...

Sarah Ogilvie is a lexicographer and a proud and self-confessed word nerd: languages are her passion and are at the heart of her writing and scholarship.