Frederick James Furnivall becomes editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.

From 1993 to 2004 he was associate editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

He was the chief editor of the 2,232-page Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium (Oxford University Press, 1991).

C. T. Onions, the last editor of the original Oxford English Dictionary, was one of his pupils.

"We still have people sitting around reading early books," said John Simpson, chief editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.

Furnivall was one of the three founders and, from 1861 to 1870, the second editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.

A more recent resident was John Simpson, senior editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.

He is associate editor of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, focusing on literary authors in the period 1890-1920.

The use of the term nonce word in this way was apparently the work of James Murray, the influential editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.

He was the primary editor of the Oxford English Dictionary from 1879 until his death.