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
Shorter Oxford English Dictionary OED. The first edition was published in February 1933. It was reprinted in March and April of that year and again in 1934. A Second Edition appeared in 1936 contained about 3,000 revisions and additions and was reprinted in 1939. A Third Edition was published in the United States under the name "The Oxford Universal Dictionary" in 1944 with reprints in 1947, 1950, 1952 and 1955. The 1955 reprint contained an addendum of new entries. The 1973 reprint, which contained an enlarged addenda with over seventy pages and a major revision of all the etymologies. The New SOED was prepared