I notice that the great universities and scholars of the English-speaking world have created a Dictionary of Old English (in progress at U. of Toronto), Middle

I notice that the great universities and scholars of the English-speaking world have created a Dictionary of Old English (in progress at U. of Toronto), Middle English Dictionary (completed, at U. Michigan), and the grand historical dictionary of early modern and modern English, the Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford U.). https://doe.artsci.utoronto.ca/ https://doe.artsci.utoronto.ca/ - free with registration https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dictionary https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/middle-english-dictionary/dicti... - free https://oed.com https://oed.com - ~$100/yr Somehow, one major era of English language history has been overlooked, one that "contributed so much vocabulary to medieval English that, alongside Latin, it remains the largest source of non-English words", and so prevelant that "Early printing of French books outweighed that of English in England.". Chronologically slotted between Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon) and Middle English, it is of course Anglo-French (or Anglo-Norman). One of the article authors says out loud the great implicit fear of the English(-speakers), and then comforts them: "Did this make the English partly French? Only if you project back the 19th century’s nationalising image of French and English as the mutually exclusive properties of two nation-states." Thank goodness. Someone remove this abomination from the front page! (/s)