What impact has Sir Arthur Conan Doyle had on the Oxford English Dictionary, and how did The Hound of the Baskervilles prompt us to update an entry? Why does tech terminology owe a lot to our fingers? What’s the longest word in the OED? (Depending on what you mean by longest.) Join lexicographers Craig Leyland and Fiona McPherson to find out.

Come back for another episode in two weeks (April 29th), when we’ll be talking to our colleague Dr Peter Gilliver about the history of the OED and how he wrote a book on the subject.

(Apologies from Craig for my occasionally suboptimal mic use in this episode – we’re learning as we go! Plus I had a cold…)

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