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
Australian Oxford Dictionary Australian Oxford Dictionary The Australian Oxford Dictionary, sometimes abbreviated as "AOD", is a dictionary of Australian English published by Oxford University Press. The "AOD" combines elements of the previous Oxford publication, "The Australian National Dictionary" (sometimes abbreviated as "AND"), which was a comprehensive, historically based record of 10,000 words and phrases representing Australia's contribution to English. However, "The Australian National Dictionary" was not a full dictionary, and could not be used as one in the normal sense. The "AOD" borrowed its scholarship both from the "AND" and from "The Oxford English Dictionary", and competed with the "Macquarie Dictionary" when it