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Help Manual July 2014.pdf

A help manual for the Dictionary of Old English and the Dictionary of Old English Corpus (July 2014).

Dictionary of Old English & Dictionary of Old English Corpus for Historians

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How to use the DOE and the Corpus to mine primary texts and research history, law, medicine--even without a background in Old English

Dictionary of Old English Corpus: Searching for Phrases and Word Combinations

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How to search the DOE Corpus for multiple words: phrases, word combinations, expressions. Includes regular expression and proximity searches.