Philip Durkin

Philip Durkin is Principal Etymologist of the Oxford English Dictionary . He trained as a medievalist and historian of the English language at the University of Oxford, where he completed a doctorate on previously unedited Middle English prose texts. He is a well-known speaker on English etymology. His publications include articles in scholarly journals, such as Transactions of the Philological Society, Dictionaries , and Critical Quarterly . He is Honorary Treasurer of the Philological...See more

Philip Durkin is Principal Etymologist of the Oxford English Dictionary . He trained as a medievalist and historian of the English language at the University of Oxford, where he completed a doctorate on previously unedited Middle English prose texts. He is a well-known speaker on English etymology. His publications include articles in scholarly journals, such as Transactions of the Philological Society, Dictionaries , and Critical Quarterly . He is Honorary Treasurer of the Philological Society, the oldest learned society in Great Britain for the study of language and languages See less