Mr. Michael Rundell has been a lexicographer since 1980, following a short and not very brilliant career as an academic, then as an English language teacher. He worked for a time at COBUILD during the earliest days of corpus lexicography, then for over ten years at Longman, and most recently he has been dividing his time between Macmillan’s exciting dictionary publishing programme and his own business as a trainer and project manager. As Managing Editor at Longman Dictionaries (1984-94), he was responsible for several big dictionary projects, including the Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English (1987 and 1995 editions), and the Longman Language Activator (1993). Since 1998, he has been a lexicographic consultant for Bloomsbury Publishing plc, who planned and wrote the Macmillan English Dictionary.