errors noted by author
ambiguous hyphens (underlining intentionally faint)
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text from Additions and Corrections (outlined as a block)
Errors and Inconsistencies
For errors corrected by the authors, see the Additions and Corrections
section.
Typographical errors are shown in the text with mouse-hover popups.
Most errors are trivial, such as missing or incorrect punctuation or
misplaced italics. Variant abbreviations such as “O.H.G.” for “OHG.”
have been regularized to the forms given in the Authorities and
Language lists. The word “invisible” in corrections means that there is
an appropriately sized blank space in the printed text.
Errors in Greek accents were silently corrected. A few minor variations
were retained, including:
“hedgehog” or “hedghog”
Cf. or Cp.
(_n_) or (_n._)
_pt. pr._ or _pt.-pr._
Alphabetization in the Dictionary
Unless otherwise noted, words are spelled and alphabetized as
originally printed. Note in particular:
The letter Æ æ is alphabetized as ae.
The letter I is alphabetized according to its phonetic value, vowel
before consonant. J is not used.
Thorn Þ þ and eth ð (capital Ð does not occur) are alphabetized as th.
The letters U and V are shown with the _form_ used in their source
documents, but are _alphabetized_ by phonetic value. A few sequences
such as initial Su- do not make this distinction.
Yogh Ȝ ȝ is alphabetized after y.
_Technical Note_
Anchors of Dictionary headwords are in the form word_entry (lower case)
with these modifications:
— æ, ð, þ, ȝ have been expanded to ae, dh, th, gh
— diacritical marks and medial hyphens have been omitted
— spaces (only in phrases) have been changed to _ lines
— duplicate headwords are identified by part of speech and, if
necessary, by number: word_thanne_adv; word_on_prefix_1. If the text
uses numbers, as with groups of identically spelled prefixes, the
anchor will use the same number.
Hyphens At Line-End
The book’s two-column format resulted in a great many line-end hyphens.
Most hyphenated words were unique, so the ordinary tests (“Is this
word, or a structurally similar one, hyphenated on its other
occurrences?”) could seldom be used.
Line-end hyphens in cross-references (“see”, “see also”, “cf.”) were
kept or omitted based on the form of the cross-referenced headword.
Note that hyphenization in this situation is very inconsistent. Except
in the Additions, cross-references often omit a mid-line hyphen that is
present in the referenced word, or include one that is absent.
Line-end hyphens were retained in past participles in i-, y- and
equivalent, and after the prefixes out- and to-; they were omitted
before common endings such as -lich, -ship, -ness, -full. They were
removed after Middle English un-, but retained after Anglo-Saxon un-.
The remaining line-end hyphens were omitted _unless_ they were in the
same location (morphological boundary) as the hyphen in the headword,
or if the hyphenated word was a compound. Within these two groups,
final decisions were based on more fluid criteria such as internal
consistency within an entry, or hyphenization of other words from the
same source. Words printed with these types of ambiguous hyphens are
lightly underlined in the e-text. The position of omitted hyphens is
generally obvious, and has not been explicitly marked.