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old english

Latin translation: early modern English

08:09 Aug 8, 2000
English to Latin translations [Non-PRO]
English term or phrase: old english
I would be interested in finding an English dictionary that dates from the 1500's to the 1600's to compare their definitions of words to current ones. Can you help? Thanks!
david
Latin translation:early modern English
Explanation:
If you're looking for 1500-1600: it's not Old English, that's much earlier. What you're looking for is actually Early Modern English (Shakespeare's English) See for instance Albert C. Baugh and Thomas Cable "A History of the English Language", 4th ed. London 1993 (Routledge). Chapter 7 (Renaissance English: 1500-1650) is exactly your period and gives a bibliography, One of the most recent works it quotes is Gorlach's "Introduction to Early Modern English" (Cambridge 1991). I haven't read Gorlach myself though.
Hope this will steer you in the right direction
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early modern English


Explanation:
If you're looking for 1500-1600: it's not Old English, that's much earlier. What you're looking for is actually Early Modern English (Shakespeare's English) See for instance Albert C. Baugh and Thomas Cable "A History of the English Language", 4th ed. London 1993 (Routledge). Chapter 7 (Renaissance English: 1500-1650) is exactly your period and gives a bibliography, One of the most recent works it quotes is Gorlach's "Introduction to Early Modern English" (Cambridge 1991). I haven't read Gorlach myself though.
Hope this will steer you in the right direction

FionaT
Netherlands
Local time: 06:15
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in DutchDutch
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