Thomas Burns McArthur (23 August 1938 – 30 March 2020) was a Scottish linguist,[2] lexicographer, and the founding editor of English Today.
A second edition was published in 2018, co-edited with Jacqueline Lam McArthur and Lise Fontaine.
[10][11] Besides writing and editing books, McArthur also taught at the University of Exeter's Dictionary Research Centre.
[10] In 1987 he collaborated with David Crystal to produce an 18-part radio version of a TV series The Story of English for BBC World Service,[10][12] and in 1997 he co-founded the Asian Association for Lexicography.
[10] He published books about Indian philosophy and the Bhagavad Gita,[14][15] researched and wrote about the languages of Scotland,[16] and penned several unpublished novels.