Peter Gilliver (born 14 June 1964) is a lexicographer and associate editor of the Oxford English Dictionary.
He attended Barnard Castle School, and has a degree in Mathematics from Jesus College, Cambridge,[1] and a qualification in Information Science from Liverpool.
Gilliver, a longtime editor who also seems to be the OED's resident historian, points out that the dictionary feels obliged to include words that many would regard simply as misspellings.
No one is particularly proud of the new entry as of December 2003 for nucular, a word not associated with high standards of diction.
"I was amazed to find that the spelling n-u-c-u-l-a-r has decades of history," Gilliver says.