Anglo-Norman Dictionary A-E

The first edition of the Anglo-Norman Dictionary (AND1) was the only dictionary to provide coverage of medieval French as used in Britain. Perhaps inevitably, during the course of publication, the dictionary changed. In the case of AND1, the modification towards the middle of the alphabet was radical, with the inclusion of material drawn from Elsie Shanks's very substantial Dictionary of Law French, and the fichier assembled by J. P. Collas. These two sources, which extensively explored the non-literary register of administrative and legal Anglo-Norman, dramatically changed the range and scale of AND1. In the late 1980s, the decision was taken to massively revise the entire dictionary. Along with the Shanks and Collas material, the new dictionary (AND2) also draws on substantial quantities of hitherto unpublished documents which have appeared since the early 1970s. Lexical coverage has been enormously expanded in the fields of administration, law, science, botany, and medicine. The revised edition draws extensively on concordanced and digitized texts, and it offers a well-developed coverage of locutions. The dictionary also features a substantially revised layout. The articles are broken down and made much more usable by including a summary of the main senses at the head of each article, numbered in a way that takes a reader directly to the relevant portion of the entry body. As well as speeding up the location of a particular sense, this layout offers a clear overview of the principal semantic pattern of a particular word.Gregory, Stewart is the author of 'Anglo-Norman Dictionary A-E ', published 2006 under ISBN 9781904350392 and ISBN 1904350399.