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Dave Wilton

Dave Wilton is graduate student in medieval English literature at the University of Toronto. He is the author of Word Myths: Debunking Linguistic Urban Legends (Oxford Univ. Press, 2004). Dave has an M.A. from George Washington University in National Security Policy Studies and a B.A. from Lafayette College in Government & Law.

Dexter

Dexter is the staff assistant here at Wordorigins.org. His duties include reception and greeting of visitors, multiple daily perambulations, pursuit of delivery persons, mastication of assorted objects, and olfactory investigations.

Dexter holds a diploma in Basic Obedience from the Berkeley-East Bay Humane Society.