Peter Gilliver
@petermgilliver.bsky.social
Word person; tenor; European; British; English (Northern, and not a monkey); blissfully partnered; some other things. Views my own.
@roystonmuseum.bsky.social @esperanto.org.uk Here's a piece about a Royston man, and an Esperantist.
Happy New Year, everyone.
Arthur Thomas Maling (1858–1939) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-editors-...
Arthur Thomas Maling (1858–1939) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-editors-...
January 2, 2026 at 10:07 AM
@roystonmuseum.bsky.social @esperanto.org.uk Here's a piece about a Royston man, and an Esperantist.
Happy New Year, everyone.
Arthur Thomas Maling (1858–1939) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-editors-...
Arthur Thomas Maling (1858–1939) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-editors-...
January 1, 2026 at 5:30 PM
Happy New Year, everyone.
Arthur Thomas Maling (1858–1939) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-editors-...
Arthur Thomas Maling (1858–1939) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-editors-...
I haven’t yet written about the prodigious #OEDMaker William Douglas (1842–1910), not least because his troubled story is told at some length in Sarah Ogilvie’s The Dictionary People (a fine piece of detective work on her part). But I just came across a nice snippet about him, which…
December 30, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I haven’t yet written about the prodigious #OEDMaker William Douglas (1842–1910), not least because his troubled story is told at some length in Sarah Ogilvie’s The Dictionary People (a fine piece of detective work on her part). But I just came across a nice snippet about him, which…
Merry Christmas, everyone. Cornelius Birch Bagster (1815–93) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-quotatio...
December 25, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Merry Christmas, everyone. Cornelius Birch Bagster (1815–93) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-quotatio...
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Moss Side, Manchester, 1970, photo by Martin Parr. My nan lived there at the time, but thankfully not in this street.
December 24, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Moss Side, Manchester, 1970, photo by Martin Parr. My nan lived there at the time, but thankfully not in this street.
Not that it isn't a pretty good word, this year or any year.
Merriam-Webster Accused Of Bias After ‘Dictionary’ Named Word Of The Year
Merriam-Webster Accused Of Bias After ‘Dictionary’ Named Word Of The Year
SPRINGFIELD, MA—Facing intense backlash and scrutiny from critics who say the reference book publisher had failed to take all words into consideration, Merriam-Webster was accused of bias Monday after...
theonion.com
December 17, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Not that it isn't a pretty good word, this year or any year.
William Ward Wight (1849–1931) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-quotatio...
December 14, 2025 at 6:52 PM
William Ward Wight (1849–1931) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-quotatio...
As a holding operation until I can finish my own next #OEDMaker article (December gets busy, doesn't it?): the latest update of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography includes a clutch of new articles on lexicographers and…
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December 12, 2025 at 12:30 PM
As a holding operation until I can finish my own next #OEDMaker article (December gets busy, doesn't it?): the latest update of the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography includes a clutch of new articles on lexicographers and…
Reposted by Peter Gilliver
If you want to know what the likes of Benjamin Britten, Michael Powell & Ronald Searle thought of the movies of 1951, and surely everyone does, here’s the page that Christie quote comes from … (2/2)
November 27, 2025 at 8:08 PM
If you want to know what the likes of Benjamin Britten, Michael Powell & Ronald Searle thought of the movies of 1951, and surely everyone does, here’s the page that Christie quote comes from … (2/2)
Wilhelm Rudolf Ludwig Brackebusch (1838–89) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-editors-...
December 4, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Wilhelm Rudolf Ludwig Brackebusch (1838–89) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-editors-...
In response to all those protests that ‘rage bait’ can't be #OxfordWOTY because it's two words:
ragebait
There, fixed it for you.
(Signed, someone who revised the #OED entry for ‘word’.)
ragebait
There, fixed it for you.
(Signed, someone who revised the #OED entry for ‘word’.)
December 2, 2025 at 8:45 AM
In response to all those protests that ‘rage bait’ can't be #OxfordWOTY because it's two words:
ragebait
There, fixed it for you.
(Signed, someone who revised the #OED entry for ‘word’.)
ragebait
There, fixed it for you.
(Signed, someone who revised the #OED entry for ‘word’.)
William John Lawrence (1862–1940) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/miscellaneou...
November 30, 2025 at 8:27 PM
William John Lawrence (1862–1940) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/miscellaneou...
Shocking.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Shocking.
I know a lot of people like this sort of thing, so for those who like this sort of thing, here it is. corp.oup.com/word-of-the-...
Oxford Word of the Year 2025 - Oxford University Press
Voting is now open for Oxford Word of the Year 2025! Discover our shortlist and have your say by Thursday 27 November.
corp.oup.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:48 AM
I know a lot of people like this sort of thing, so for those who like this sort of thing, here it is. corp.oup.com/word-of-the-...
Gustave Adolphe Schrumpf (1844–92) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-editors-...
November 21, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Gustave Adolphe Schrumpf (1844–92) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-editors-...
William Gee (1836–98) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him (a substantial update of something I wrote two years ago). Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-editors-...
November 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM
William Gee (1836–98) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him (a substantial update of something I wrote two years ago). Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-editors-...
Reposted by Peter Gilliver
This is a great essay and going to be a HUGE big deal game changer for the early modernists interested in genre, form, etc.
November 10, 2025 at 9:19 AM
This is a great essay and going to be a HUGE big deal game changer for the early modernists interested in genre, form, etc.
Shocking if true. No, really: it would be shocking if this were true. And if it is, what can anyone do to avert it?
I am hearing that @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is suspending (i.e shutting down) *all modern language courses* in 2026-27. One of the largest departments in the UK. A shocking short sighted move that damages regional and national prospects @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Shocking if true. No, really: it would be shocking if this were true. And if it is, what can anyone do to avert it?
November 5, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Robert Backhouse Peacock (1813–64) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-quotatio...
November 2, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Robert Backhouse Peacock (1813–64) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-quotatio...
Wendell Phillips Garrison (1840–1907) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/miscellaneou...
October 31, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Wendell Phillips Garrison (1840–1907) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/miscellaneou...
Spare a thought today for those coming to terms with the fact that a sibling or other family member is guilty, or even merely said to be guilty, of an abusive sexual offence. And even—go on, I dare you—for…
October 31, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Spare a thought today for those coming to terms with the fact that a sibling or other family member is guilty, or even merely said to be guilty, of an abusive sexual offence. And even—go on, I dare you—for…
Reposted by Peter Gilliver
Today, an estimated 1.6 million Ukrainian children remain in territories occupied by Russia. Cut off from Ukraine's education system, they are exposed daily to Russian propaganda, militarization, and pressure to abandon their national identity.
October 26, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Today, an estimated 1.6 million Ukrainian children remain in territories occupied by Russia. Cut off from Ukraine's education system, they are exposed daily to Russian propaganda, militarization, and pressure to abandon their national identity.
Charles Gray (1834–1915) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-quotatio...
October 25, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Charles Gray (1834–1915) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-quotatio...
No words.
Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."
October 23, 2025 at 6:21 PM
No words.