In 1996, as the print MED neared completion, a small committee was appointed by the Office of the Vice-President for Research (OVPR) in the University of Michigan to consider the merits of creating an electronic version of the dictionary.
Dictionaries:Journal ofthe Dictionary Society ofNorth America 23 (2002) The Middle English Compendium: Past, Present, Future127 period, making it a fundamental resource for medievalists working on the language and the literary culture of medieval England. 2Alongside Middle English in all its various dialects and registers, Latin was used extensively as the language for administration, religion and learning, Anglo-Norman and other French dialects were the languages of social prestige and of literature for much of the period, and Welsh spilled over the borders into the western part of the country these intermingled language contacts influenced English, especially in the area of lexis. Lewis, and based on about three million quotations drawn from this mass of texts and records, offers a rich and reliable record of the lexis and usage of this 'The quotation, dated 1714, is taken from OED2 (1989), s.v. Middle English was thus not uniform and static but formed a continuum of different dialects, shifting and changing over both space and time, and influenced in various ways, particularly in its lexis, by contact with the other languages used within the country.2 The written varieties of Middle English are preserved in a huge body of literary texts and documents of all kinds, and the print MiddleEnglish Dictionary (MED), completed in 2001 under the editorship of Robert E. The English used during this period varied according to region, and the language changed in pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and spelling habits over these three to four hundred years. are the compendium of all knowledge" Ti me Middle English period spans roughly the years 1150-1500 and presents a complex social and linguistic culture. The Middle English Compendium: Past, Present, Future Frances McSparran "Indexes and dictionaries. In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
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