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Chaucer worked, in part, from a translation of the Consolation into French by Jean de Meun but is clear he also worked from a Latin version, correcting some of the liberties de Meun takes with the text. The Latin source was probably a corrupt version of Boethius' original, which explains some of Chaucer's own misinterpretations of the work.
Google Dictionary is an online dictionary service of Google that can be accessed with the "define" operator and other similar phrases [note 1] in Google Search. [2] It is also available in Google Translate and as a Google Chrome extension. The dictionary content is licensed from Oxford University Press's Oxford Languages. [3]
Geoffrey Chaucer (/ ˈ tʃ ɔː s ər / CHAW-sər; c. 1343 – 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales. [1] He has been called the "father of English literature", or, alternatively, the "father of English poetry". [2]
The SEAlang Library is an online library that hosts Southeast Asian linguistic reference materials.. Established in 2005 and publicly launched on April 1, 2006, [1] it was initially funded from the Technological Innovation and Cooperation for Foreign Information Access (TICFIA) program of the U.S. Department of Education, with matching funds from computational linguistics research centers.
e-mahashabdkosh bi-lingual and bi-directional Hindi/English dictionaries; Ekşi Sözlük Turkish collaborative dictionary; Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru an online dictionary of the Welsh language; Plena Ilustrita Vortaro de Esperanto Esperanto dictionary; Reta Vortaro Esperanto dictionary; Susning.nu free Swedish online dictionary, opened 2001, now ...
The Canterbury Tales (Middle English: Tales of Caunterbury) [2] is a collection of twenty-four stories that runs to over 17,000 lines written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer between 1387 and 1400. [3]
The first modern KBBI dictionary was published during the 5th Indonesian Language Congress on 28 October 1988. The first edition contains approximately 62,000 entries. The dictionary was compiled by a team led by the Head of the Language Center, Anton M. Moeliono , with chief editors Sri Sukesi Adiwimarta and Adi Sunaryo.
He completed Mitchell Kemble's edition of the Anglo-Saxon Gospels, and did work both in Old English and the Gothic language. Skeat is best known for his work in Middle English, and for his standard editions of Chaucer and William Langland's Piers Plowman. [7] Skeat was the founder and only president of the English Dialect Society from 1873 to ...