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Clive Leo McNeir

British linguist, lexicographer and writer

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Clive Leo McNeir was a British lexicographer and linguist.

Clive Leo McNeir is a British linguist, lexicographer, and author of a series of crime novels. As a director of The European Language Initiative, he compiled and edited 12 dictionaries in 15 languages, the first one being published by Cassell in 1993.

Education

McNeir received a bachelor's degree in French and German from the Queen Mary University of London, where he studied from 1963 to 1967.

Personal life He and his wife, cookery writer Cassandra, live in a 300-year-old cottage in rural Northamptonshire.

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British linguist, lexicographer and writer

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Sources & further reading

· Wikipedia: Clive Leo McNeir

· Wikidata: Q5134614

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