Sir William Alexander Craigie (13 August 1867 – 2 September 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.

2024年7月1日 · Sir William Alexander Craigie (1867 – 1957) was a philologist, lexicographer and Oxford professor. He was J.R.R. Tolkien 's immediate predecessor as Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon from 1916 to 1925. William Craigie was born in Dundee, Scotland and as a child developed a love for languages, particularly Scottish Gaelic.

Sir William Alexander Craigie (born Aug. 13, 1867, Dundee, Angus, Scot.—died Sept. 2, 1957, Watlington, Oxfordshire, Eng.) was a Scottish lexicographer and language and literature scholar who was joint editor (1901–33) of The Oxford English Dictionary and chief editor (1923–36) of the four-volume Historical Dictionary of American English.

W. A. Craigie, the third of the four main editors of the first edition of OED, was a Lowland Scot born in Dundee, the son of a jobbing gardener (the other three editors, Murray, Bradley and Onions, also came from relatively humble origins).

2007年7月20日 · Craigie, William A. (William Alexander), Sir, 1867-1957. Publication date 1914 Topics Mythology, Norse Publisher London : A. Constable Collection cdl; americana Contributor University of California Libraries Language English Item Size 152.8M "Selected works": p. …

2007年1月23日 · W. A. Craigie, Henry Bradley, C. T. Onions. Publication date 1928 Publisher Clarendon Press at Oxford Collection folkscanomy_miscellaneous; folkscanomy; additional_collections Contributor Kragen Javier Sitaker Language English Volume 10, part 2 Item Size 7.0G . Addeddate 2007-01-23 15:00:32 ...

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Reissued 1st edn, 12 vols with one-volume Supplement, ed. W. A. Craigie and C. T. Onions. Oxford: Clarendon Press

Scottish philologist and lexicographer; husband of Jessie Kinmond Craigie. Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1929.

Sir William Alexander Craigie was a Scottish 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.