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Jonathan Dent

Jonathan Dent

Senior Editor at Oxford University Press, specializing in lexicography for the Oxford English Dictionary.

Sep 23, 2026

28:44
What stood out to you?
28:45
Well, I think there's lots of fascinating words in the update.
28:50
There's a whole batch of words to do with fantasy and fantastic.
28:57
There's things like garner, which I had no idea was related to the word granary etymologically.
29:05
The idea of gathering things in, I thought that was really fascinating.
29:10
I worked on two big clusters of words that enter English from Latin for this update, which are declare and declaration and conclude and conclusion.
29:25
As often with those kind of words, there aren't that many surprises because the early sense history is often present in Latin.

5 MINS LATER

34:53
You've got to assimilate a lot of information quickly in order to be able to really get a grip on also sense development within an entry.

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