Middle English Dictionary the next several decades. The dictionary was completed in 2001. In 2007, the full dictionary was made freely available and searchable online in an HTML format. 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
Idiom dictionary completion of the "Concise Oxford English Dictionary", which itself contained many idioms. Some multilingual dictionaries of idioms are available on-line. One of them is Babelite which is freely accessible. The main readership and market for idiom dictionaries are deaf people and learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). The first major dictionary of idioms in American English was "A Dictionary of Idioms for the Deaf"; published in 1966 by the American School for the Deaf. Subsequent editions were published under the more general title of "A Dictionary of American Idioms". Idioms may vary considerably in their presentation. The keywords