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Yes, and the criteria for inclusion are interesting. According to https://www.oed.com/public/oldenglishintheoed/old https://www.oed.com/public/oldenglishintheoe
by bloak 4y ago
Yes, and the criteria for inclusion are interesting. According to https://www.oed.com/public/oldenglishintheoed/old https://www.oed.com/public/oldenglishintheoed/old, any word that survived in English after 1150 qualifies for inclusion, but once it is included examples of its usage may be taken from the earliest Anglo-Saxon literature, so back to about the year 600. So some of the usage examples are not very easy for a typical modern reader to understand, to put it mildly.
- hodgesrm 4y agoThe OED also cheats a little by using quotes from other languages like Latin, which does not seem completely cricket. Definition 1 of Peer in the 1989 Edition has the following starting quote from the Magna Carta: 1215 Magna Carta xxi. Comites & barones non amercientur nisi per pares suos. Counts and barons shall not be fined except by their equals.