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My guest today is Dr. David Williams, who is an associate professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo, located in Waterloo, Canada. He has a five-year academic grant of over $250,000 to continue his work on the Oxford English Dictionary, with two main goals, which we talk about.
David Williams
https://uwaterloo.ca/english/people-profiles/david-williams
The Life of Words: Poetry, Lexicography, and Computing
https://thelifeofwords.uwaterloo.ca/
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