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“Early Modern English”
Guidance on labels and date ranges: how the OED labels (really, really, really) old words
The OED offers a record of English as it has been used for more than 1,000 years and each entry tells the story of a word’s place in the English…
Cha before tea: finding earlier mentions in a corpus of early English letters (part 2)
In the first part of this blog post, we discussed an antedating for tea found in the Corpus of Early English Correspondence (CEEC). That instance, in a 1643 letter by…
Cha before tea: finding earlier mentions in a corpus of early English letters (part 1)
Who creates and adopts new vocabulary in the history of English? A team of University of Helsinki researchers discuss new antedatings for both ‘cha’ and ‘tea’ from the time of the English Civil War:
