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    The Dictionary of Old English (DOE) is a dictionary of the Old English language, published by the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Toronto, under...
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  • Old English (Englisc or Ænglisc, pronounced [ˈeŋɡliʃ] or [ˈæŋɡliʃ]), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in...
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    English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford...
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    A Dictionary of the English Language, sometimes published as Johnson's Dictionary, was published on 15 April 1755 and written by Samuel Johnson. It is...
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  • online in an HTML format. Middle English Dictionary of Old English Oxford English Dictionary "About the Middle English Compendium". quod.lib.umich.edu. Retrieved...
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    form of bilingual dictionaries, and the oldest surviving monolingual dictionaries are Chinese dictionaries c. 3rd century BCE. The first purely English alphabetical...
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    An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary is a dictionary of Old English (also known as Anglo-Saxon). Four editions of the dictionary were published. It has often (especially...
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    dialects. Rhyming dictionaries for Old English, Elizabethan poetry, or Standard English would have quite different content. Rhyming dictionaries are invaluable...
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  • Words of Old Norse origin have entered the English language, primarily from the contact between Old Norse and Old English during colonisation of eastern...
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  • Old English literature refers to poetry (alliterative verse) and prose written in Old English in early medieval England, from the 7th century to the decades...
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  • Webster's Dictionary is any of the US English language dictionaries edited in the early 19th century by Noah Webster (1758–1843), a US lexicographer,...
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  • The grammar of Old English differs greatly from Modern English, predominantly being much more inflected. As a Germanic language, Old English has a morphological...
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    A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926), by H. W. Fowler (1858–1933), is a style guide to British English usage and writing. It covers a wide range...
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    Chinese–English Dictionary (1892), compiled by the British consular officer and sinologist Herbert Allen Giles (1845–1935), is the first Chinese–English encyclopedic...
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    Learner's Dictionary (OALD) was the first advanced learner's dictionary of English. It was first published in 1948. It is the largest English-language...
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  • The English Dialect Dictionary (EDD) is the most comprehensive dictionary of English dialects ever published, compiled by the Yorkshire dialectologist...
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  • like the English Dialect Dictionary, the Scottish National Dictionary and the Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue, the Dictionary of American Regional...
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  • Chinese–English Dictionary or ABC Dictionary (1996), compiled under the chief editorship of John DeFrancis, is the first Chinese dictionary to collate...
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  • antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (English: Dictionary of Old Tupi: the classical indigenous language of Brazil) was compiled by the Brazilian lexicographer...
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    Grendel's mother (category Articles containing Old English (ca. 450-1100)-language text)
    Grendel's mother (Old English: Grendles mōdor) is one of three antagonists in the anonymous Old English poem Beowulf (c. 700–1000 AD), the other two being...
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  • Chambers Dictionary was first published by William and Robert Chambers as Chambers's English Dictionary in 1872. It was an expanded version of Chambers's...
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  • Angus Cameron (academic) (category Academic staff of the University of Toronto)
    continue his work on the Dictionary of Old English. Cameron began his lexicographical work in 1970 with the Dictionary of Old English, supported by the Canada...
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  • was a southern dialect of Old English spoken in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Kent. It was one of four dialect-groups of Old English, the other three being...
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    The Old English Latin alphabet generally consisted of about 24 letters, and was used for writing Old English from the 8th to the 12th centuries. Of these...
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  • The Dictionary of American Regional English (DARE) is a record of regional variations within American English, published in five volumes from 1985 to...
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    dictionary website that provided a collection of English and Spanish dictionaries produced by Oxford University Press (OUP), the publishing house of the...
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    century. Old English evolved into Middle English, which in turn evolved into Modern English. Particular dialects of Old and Middle English also developed...
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  • in Dictionary of Old English: A to I online, ed. Angus Cameron, Ashley Crandell Amos, Antonette diPaolo Healey et al. (Toronto: Dictionary of Old English...
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  • Look up Old English in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Old English was an early form of the English language spoken by Anglo-Saxons until the 12th century...
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    Dictionary and Cyclopedia is one of the largest encyclopedic dictionaries of the English language. It was compared favorably with the Oxford English Dictionary...
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