English Dialect Dictionary (EDD) is a dictionary of English languagedialects, compiled by Joseph Wright. The dictionary is a list of words with their definitions, a list of characters with their glyphs, or a list of words with corresponding words in other languages. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... A dialect (from the Greek word διάλεκτος, dialektos) is a variety of a language characteristic of a particular group of the languages speakers. ... Joseph Wright FBA (1855-1930) rose from humble origins to become Professor of Comparative Philology at Oxford University. ...
The English dialect dictionary, being the complete vocabulary of all dialect words still in use, or known to have been in use during the last two hundred years; founded on the publications of the English Dialect Society and on a large amount of material never before printed was published by Oxford University Press in 6 volumes between 1898 and 1905. Its compilation and printing was funded privately by Joseph Wright, a self-taught philologist at the University of Oxford. Oxford University Press (OUP) is a highly-respected publishing house and a department of the University of Oxford in England. ... Philology, etymologically, is the love of words. ... The University of Oxford (usually abbreviated as Oxon. ...
Due to the scale of the work – 70,000 entries – and the period in which the information was gathered, it is regarded as a standard work in the historical study of dialect.
A project to digitise the EDD is underway at Innsbruck University Library. A partial scanned version of the work made by University of Toronto Library is currently available through the Internet Archive. Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck has been a university since 1669. ... The University of Toronto (U of T) is a coeducational public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. ... The logo of Internet Archive Internet Archive headquarters The Internet Archive (IA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to maintaining an on-line library and archive of Web and multimedia resources. ...
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