Ogilvie, "The OED: A Truly Global Dictionary". Burchfield also participated in a 1980s BBC committee that monitored compliance with the broadcaster's policy of using received pronunciation in newscasting, before that policy was abandoned in 1989 in favor of "using announcers and newsreaders with a more representative range of accents." In retirement, he produced a controversial new edition, substantially rewritten and less prescriptivist, of Fowler's Modern English Usage, the long-established style guide by Henry Watson Fowler. He died in Abingdon-on-Thames at 81, in 2004. He married twice and had three children. Selected worksSupplement to the Oxford English Dictionary, 4 vols, 1972–1986The Spoken Word, 1981The English Language, 1985Studies in Lexicography, 1987Unlocking the English Language, 1989The Cambridge History of the English Language, Vol. 5: English in Britain and Overseas, 1994 Editor, Fowler's Modern English Usage'', Revised Edition, 1998 References 1923 births 2004 deaths Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford New Zealand lexicographers British lexicographers Etymologists New Zealand Rhodes Scholars Victoria University of Wellington alumni Fellows of Christ Church, Oxford Fellows of St Peter's College, Oxford Fellows of Magdalen College, Oxford Chief editors of the Oxford English Dictionary New Zealand expatriates in England New Zealand Commanders of the Order of the British Empire Companions of the New Zealand Order of Merit New Zealand military personnel of World War II 20th-century lexicographers