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Sir William Alexander Craigie (
August 13 1867 –
September 2 1957) was a
philologist and a
lexicographer.
A graduate of the
University of St Andrews, he was the third editor of the
Oxford English Dictionary and co-editor (with
C. T. Onions) of the 1933 supplement. From 1916 to 1925 he was also
Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the
University of Oxford.
He lectured on lexicography at the
University of Chicago while working on the
Dictionary of American English and the
Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, a project he pioneered. Many 20th century American lexicographers studied under Craigie as a part of his lectureship, including
Clarence Barnhart, Jess Stein, Woodford A. Heflin, Robert Ramsey,
Louise Pound, and Allan Walker Read.
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