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Encyclopedia > Old English (disambiguation)

Old English may refer to:

Dog breeds: Old English redirects here. ... The Old English were a wave of early medieval Norman, French, Welsh, English, Breton and Flemish settlers who went to Ireland to claim territory and lands in the wake of the Norman invasion. ... Adam Conover, Dave Segal, Ben Popik, Hana Scott-Suhrstedt, Raizin Bob-Waksberg, and Caleb Bark Olde English is a sketch comedy troupe formed in the Fall of 2002. ... The Olde English District is a region of South Carolina encompassing Camden, Chester, Clover, Fort Mill, Kershaw, Lake Wylie, Lancaster, Rock Hill, Woodruff, and York counties. ... Middle English is the name given by historical linguistics to the diverse forms of the English language spoken between the Norman invasion of 1066 and the mid-to-late 15th century, when the Chancery Standard, a form of London-based English, began to become widespread, a process aided by the...

Beverages: The Old English Bulldog is for all intents and purposes an extinct breed of dog. ... The Olde English Bulldogge is a breed of dog. ... The Old English Sheepdog is a breed of dog used for herding livestock, and as a pet. ...

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Oxford English Dictionary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (4129 words)
The aim of this Dictionary is to present in alphabetical series the words that have formed the English vocabulary from the time of the earliest records down to the present day, with all the relevant facts concerning their form, sense-history, pronunciation, and etymology.
Trench played a key role in the first months of the project, but his ecclesiastical career meant that he could not give the dictionary the continued attention that it needed over a period that, it was realized, might easily be as long as ten years.
The early modern English prose of Sir Thomas Browne is the most frequently quoted source of neologisms.
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