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  Encyclopedia :: encyclopedia : English plural   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
In the English language, nouns are inflected for grammatical number — that is, singular or plural.
Dies is used as the plural for die in the sense of a mould; dice as the plural (and increasingly as the singular) in the sense of a small random number generator.
Also in British English, names of towns and countries take plural verbs when they refer to sports teams but singular verbs when they refer to the actual place: England are playing Germany tonight refers to a football game, but England is the most populous country of the United Kingdom refers to the country.
www.hallencyclopedia.com /English_plural   (3138 words)

  
 Oxford English Dictionary - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The aim of this Dictionary is to present in alphabetical series the words that have formed the English vocabulary from the time of the earliest records down to the present day, with all the relevant facts concerning their form, sense-history, pronunciation, and etymology.
Trench played a key role in the first months of the project, but his ecclesiastical career meant that he could not give the dictionary the continued attention that it needed over a period that, it was realized, might easily be as long as ten years.
The early modern English prose of Sir Thomas Browne is the most frequently quoted source of neologisms.
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 Old English language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon) is an early form of the English language that was spoken in parts of what is now England and southern Scotland between the mid-fifth century and the mid-twelfth century.
Old English was not static, and its usage covered a period of approximately 700 years – from the Anglo-Saxon migrations which created England in the fifth century to some time after the Norman invasion of 1066, after which the language underwent a major and dramatic transition.
Old English words were spelt as they were pronounced; the silent letters of Modern English therefore did not often exist in Old English.
www.knowledgehunter.info /wiki/Old_English_language   (2775 words)

  
 Oxford English Dictionary Encyclopedia Articles @ LocalColorArt.com (Local Color Art)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18)
The cheapest would be to leave the existing work alone and simply compile a new supplement, of perhaps one or two volumes; but then anyone looking for a word or sense and unsure of its age would have to look in three different places.
However, no more Additions volumes are planned, and it is not expected that any part of the Third Edition, or OED3, will be printed in fascicles.
Tolkien was once an employee of the OED (researching etymologies in the range from Waggle to Warlock), and gently parodied the four principal editors as "The Four Wise Clerks of Oxenford" in his story Farmer Giles of Ham.
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