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This assignment will require you to explore an Old English word of your choice using the Dictionary of Old English and the DOE Web Corpus. You will compile your findings on our class Omeka page and give a short presentation. Vocabulary for exams will…

Image created with Wordle. Lemmatization is the process through which lexicographers assign word forms to a certain headword. For example, Modern English word forms such as burn, burns, burning, and burned all belong to the word to burn. Old English…

Kasandra Castle, graduate research assistant at the Dictionary of Old English, checks citations against manuscript facsimiles.

The main workroom at the Dictionary of Old English. This office houses the DOE's drafting editors and the DOE's library of editions, reference works, and manuscript facsimiles.

Historiated initial 'U' with angel holding a book, in BL MS. Arundel 16, f. 1. The text is Osbern's Epistola de vita S. Dunstani (Life of St. Dunstan). The manuscript dates back to the last quarter of the 11th century or first quarter of the 12th…

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

"This eighth fascicle of the Dictionary of Old English, the letter G, consists of 1,319 headwords in 3,454 pages, on microfiche. The material on which G is based represents a fresh look at all surviving Old English (except some multiple copies of…

D words in Old English: defined and illustrated with copious citations from Old English texts. Published 1984.

"These new additions to the Dictionary of Old English include the fourth fascicle, the letter Æ, consisting of 617 headwords in 771 pages on microfiche; the entry on the substantive verb Beon, issued as a supplement to Fascicle B, on 49 pages of…

"The fifth fascicle of the Dictionary of Old English, the letter A, consists of 1,505 headwords in 2,331 pages on microfiche. The material on which A is based represents a fresh look at all surviving Old English (except multiple copies of texts), an…