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Sarah Ogilvie: The Dictionary People


Sarah Ogilvie + Sarah Kanowski

The Edge Auditorium, slq

Regular Program

1047

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#About the event


#Artists

Sarah Ogilvie

Sarah Ogilvie

Sarah Ogilvie is a linguist and lexicographer (writer of dictionaries) at Oxford University. She is a former editor on the Oxford English Dictionary (OED), and her acclaimed book, The Dictionary People, uncovers the people around the world who helped create the Dictionary (including Mr Chris Collier, who lived in Paddington and sent in over 100,000 quotations from the Courier Mail!).

Sarah Kanowski

Sarah Kanowski

Sarah Kanowski co-presents ABC Radio’s Conversations, the most downloaded podcast in Australia. On Conversations she speaks with guests from all walks of life with all kinds of stories, including artists, explorers, scientists, and teachers. Sarah has a Masters in English from the University of Oxford which she attended on a Commonwealth Scholarship and is now a failing Zen student.



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