A link for word buffs

[pegkerr]

This was passed along by Lois McMaster Bujold: Here is a concise on-line dictionary of Middle English.

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[dejaspirit.livejournal.com]

Thanks for this. I emailed the link to Evan, who's really into this sort of thing lately.

[akamarykate.livejournal.com]

Whoa. That is extremely cool; thank you!

[pixelfish.livejournal.com]

Sorry, but where is Lois's blog or live journal? I read anything of hers I can get my hands on, but I didn't know if she had a blog.

[pegkerr.livejournal.com]

Oh, she doesn't have one that I know of. She sent it to me in an e-mail.

[pixelfish.livejournal.com]

Ah, okay. :)

[ex-greythist387.livejournal.com]

I hope word buffs will go farther than the extreme conciseness of that word-list. Skeat could distinguish four centuries' worth of usage in his head, of course, but the otherwise unassisted C21 reader is rarely so lucky--and one needs to distinguish usage for reading texts. I guess it's good for flavor.

A better source, though not online: Stratmann and Bradley's Middle English Dictionary, first published during Skeat's lifetime and reprinted most recently in 2004.