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Type of entity
Person
Authorized form of name
Sir William A. Craigie
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Description area
Dates of existence
1867-1957
History
Sir William A. Craigie (1867-1957) was a Scottish born philologist and a lexicographer. It was during his time as the editor of the Oxford English Dictionary that he first proposed the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue in 1919. The first volume was published in 1937 and the last in 2002 taking 65 years to complete the project.