[7] Edmund Weiner was among a group of several people (John Simpson, Yvonne Warburton, Julia Swannell, Veronica Hurst) who prepared the publication of the OED2 in 1989.
Due to the format of the dictionary, involving gaps and incomplete entries, the non-compromising method of Weiner’s was significant in the development of the modern OED.
[10] The OUP team led by Ed Weiner and John Simpson reviewed, corrected, and edited the new electronic ‘OED2’ in time for the targeted publishing year of 1989.
As well as writing or compiling a number of books on English grammar and usage, he co-authored a book on Tolkien: The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary (by Peter Gilliver, Jeremy Marshall and Edmund Weiner, Oxford University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-19-861069-6), analysing the relationship between J.R.R.
[16] He and Marshall also contributed a chapter on Tolkien's invented languages to From Elvish to Klingon (edited by Michael Adams, Oxford University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-19-280709-0).