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He attended Barnard Castle School, and has a degree in Mathematics from Jesus College, Cambridge, and a qualification in Information Science from Liverpool.
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Gilliver is working on a history of the OED, and travels to lecture on this and related subjects. Gilliver, a longtime editor who also seems to be the OED’s resident historian, points out that the dictionary feels obliged to include words that many would regard simply as misspellings. Number one is particularly proud of the new entry as of December 2003 for nucular, a word not associated with high standards of diction.
“Bizarrely, I was amazed to find that the spelling n-u-c-u-l-a-r has decades of history,” Gilliver says.
“And that is not to be confused with the quite different word, nucular, meaning ’of or relating to a nucule.’”.
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