Middle English Dictionary Middle English Dictionary The Middle English Dictionary is a dictionary of Middle English published by the University of Michigan. "Its 15,000 pages offer a comprehensive analysis of lexicon and usage for the period 1100-1500, based on the analysis of a collection of over three million citation slips, the largest collection of this kind available." The project began in the 1920s. The first instalment, "Plan and Bibliography", containing a list of Middle English texts used for the "Middle English Dictionary", was published by Hans Kurath and Sherman Kuhn in 1954. More fascicles were published in numerous volumes (in alphabetical order) over
The Australian National Dictionary "The Australian Language" (1945) and G.A. Wilkes' "Dictionary of Australian Colloquialisms" (1978). Work on the Australian National Dictionary Project was undertaken from the late 1970s by W.S. (Bill) Ramson (1933–2011) at the Australian National University. Ramson was motivated by a lack of lexicographic work on Australian English on historical principles, in the tradition of the "Oxford English Dictionary". The project gained funding from Oxford University Press and the first edition of the "Australian National Dictionary" was published by Oxford in 1988, coinciding with the bicentenary of Australia’s settlement. It was the first comprehensive, historically based record of the words and