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Like
most people who write dictionaries for a living, I became a
lexicographer by accident. After several years working in
Italy and Scotland as an ELT teacher and course organiser,
and as a translator and teacher of Italian, I was looking
for a change. In 1990, a friend spotted a job ad for
bilingual lexicographers at Longman. I applied and got the
job, and discovered something I had never suspected – that
dictionaries are written by people like me. After two years
at Longman, I moved to COBUILD, where I worked on
monolingual learner’s dictionaries. Since leaving
COBUILD in 1999 to work freelance, I have contributed to a variety
of monolingual and bilingual learner’s dictionaries, and I
also write a weekly Web
article on English.
When I’m not slaving over
a hot dictionary entry, I like to spend my time gardening,
and enjoying the company of my husband and two children. I
also sing in a choir and go to yoga classes, though despite
many years of trying I still can’t manage the lotus
position.
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