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Jeremy Butterfield

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I love exploring language, and lots of my most vivid memories are linguistic. I blog regularly about diverse aspects of our wonderful shared language, English.

My forthcoming book, 'The Metaphor Zoo: Why the English language loves animals', takes a look at hundreds of the animal images, metaphors, similes, proverbs and sayings we use every day. I mined the riches of the OED and an array of authors to source informative examples and tell a fascinating story.

I was immensely proud to be appointed editor of the most recent (2015) edition of 'Fowler's Dictionary of Modern English Usage', which I updated to reflect English now. This year is its centenary. I also edited 'Fowler's Concise Modern English Usage'.

For much of my career I managed and created dictionaries of English and many other languages for Collins dictionaries, and was ultimately Editor-in-Chief.

My first book on the quirks and quibbles of English, 'Damp Squid: the English language laid bare' (2006), continues to sell. It analyses trends in English using mountains of data, and demolishes a few shibboleths. I also edited the 'Oxford A-Z of English Usage'.
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