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Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper
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95 The second fascicle of the Dictionary of Old English , the letter C , consists of 1,367 headwords in 1,610 pages on microfiche.
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Borg Svemann,
Woodworker
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The term in some English dictionaries is said to be from the old Norse word "V ring.
T here are dictionaries of Hegelian philosophy new and old, each reflecting the general outlook and systematic sympathies of its originator and often differing in their choice of English terms to express the original German.
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Phuong Nguyen,
Exotic Dancer
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The word "Doodle" is defined in the old English dictionaries to be trifling, or simple fellow, the term was applied to Cromwell, so it is claimed, in that sense; and a macaroni was a knot on which the feather was fastened.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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Old Babylonian Text Corpus - includes Old Babylonian-English dictionary and a sign list with all variant forms.
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Anita Ganesh,
Poet
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It is a pity that the words 'Old Fashioned', were later rearranged to 'Old English' for the definition of 'Old Fashioned' in dictionaries and encyclopaedias is "being made from the root" or 'Original', and thus we have the 'Original British Sheepdog' from which others descend, including our own modern bobtails.
Also contains middle and old English dictionaries, the life and times of 14th century England, and links to the life and other works of Geoffrey Chaucer.
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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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Dictionary of Old English Corpus The Old English machine-readable corpus is a complete record of surviving Old English except for some variant manuscripts of individual texts.
A catalogue of the over 3000 texts included in the corpus is available in Angus Cameron's "A List of Old English Texts" in A Plan for the Dictionary of Old English, ed.
I am fond of old dictionaries and have one published in " A Standard Dictionary of the English Language ," published by Funk and Wagnalls Company, London and Toronto, 1895.
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Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist
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There is now a plethora of reliable editions of Old English texts, a comprehensive dictionary of Old English is in progress (based in Toronto), and the whole corpus of Old English is now available in searchable electronic form.
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Mark Harris,
Priest
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The Universal Oxford Dictionary gives the meaning of Easter as coming from the Old English astre or the feminine plural astron.
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