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Provides an online database consisting of at least one copy of every surviving Old English text. More than one copy is included, if it is significant because of dialect or date.
Offers access to and interconnectivity between three major Middle English electronic resources: an electronic version of the Middle English Dictionary, a HyperBibliography of Middle English prose and verse, and a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse. Includes links to e-resources.
Provides meaning, history, and pronunciation of words from across the English-speaking world. Offers present-day meanings and history of individual words, and of the language.