Philip Durkin

Philip N. R. Durkin is a lexicographer and etymologist, Deputy Chief Editor of the Oxford English Dictionary and leader of its team of specialist etymology editors. His books include The Oxford Guide to Etymology and Borrowed Words: A History of Loanwords in English (2014), and he is the editor of The Oxford Handbook of Lexicography (2015).

Education Durkin earned a doctorate from the University of Oxford in 1994 with a thesis on late Middle English prose texts.

Career Durkin has worked on the OED since the late 1990s and leads its etymology and form-history work. He has also held an honorary research post in the School of Critical Studies at the University of Glasgow.

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