Background
Searching the OED for large datasets can be agonizingly slow, and
the language abbreviations are not uniform throughout the dictionary -
even in its online form. For instance, the dialect of French that was
spoken in England - Anglo-French or (Old) Norman French - is variously
abbreviated in the OED as "AF.," "Anglo-Fr.," "NF.," "NFr.," "ONF.," or
"ONFr." The situation is improving, as the online edition of the OED is
being actively revised. Nevertheless, in order to make the searches of
the OED less frustrating, I have conducted the searches for the
loanwords from French (including all the relevant dialects and
historical stages of French that the OED distinguishes) and saved the
results of the searches as .pdf files. In this assignment, your task is
to contribute to our growing database of French loanwords by recording
information for a set of words from some of those .pdf files.
I conducted the searches on the 2nd edition of the OED (because large
searches there were much faster, at least at the time a few years ago
when I was conducting the searches). If you can, cut and paste the
headwords from the .pdf files into the spreadsheet you are compiling,
but don't use any of the other information, as it may have been revised
in the meantime. You should use the current edition (the 3rd) of the
online OED as the source for all the other information that you're
responsible for. In cases of discrepancies between the information in
the .pdf (derived from the 2nd edition) and the current 3rd edition, the
information in the 3rd edition takes precedence.
Assignment
Cut and paste the header row for the spreadsheet from
the previous assignment into a new spreadsheet.
For information concerning the column headings, see the
previous assignment.
For the headwords that you're responsible for
(see Who does what?), enter the information
for the following columns. If the OED doesn't contain the information,
put "n/a". Don't guess and don't use your own judgments concerning word
stress and number of syllables.
- Investigator - use your last name
- Class - F12
- Headword
- Usage
- OED date
- Etymon
- Syllables
- OED stress - remember to count from right to left
- Other comments
Since you aren't using all of the columns in the spreadsheet, you can
hide the ones that you aren't using, but please unhide them before
submitting the assignment.
Tips
| The general principle in dealing with difficult cases - here, and in
life more generally - is not to prematurely force the issue. If in
doubt, record relevant information in the
"Other comments" column. Better too many
comments than too few.
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| Once again, as much as possible, cut and paste information into
cells rather than typing. Certain OED characters (for instance, long
vowels with macrons) can get lost in the process, but cutting and
pasting is so much faster, more accurate, and more consistent than typing
that it's worth any revisions that we may have to make later on.
You should be aware, however, that some browsers (e.g. recent
versions of Firefox) are so smart that they don't allow cutting and
pasting from the OED. Experiment with different browsers. In the worst
case, you'll have to resort to typing by hand.
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| If you find it helpful to work in pairs, with one person dictating
and one recording, you should feel free to do so.
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Who does what?
| Investigator
| Headwords
| Source .pdf file
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| Staff
| 1-568
| Fr.pdf
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| Breiner
| 3801-3900
| OFr-3001-4000.pdf
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| Burchill
| 4001-4100
| OFr-4001-5000.pdf
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| Diamond
| 4101-4200
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| Garcia
| 4301-4400
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| Kodner
| 4401-4500
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| Pedisch
| 4601-4700
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