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Rachel Fletcher
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Leiden University. Working on the reception of Old English in 19th-century Europe. Dictionary enthusiast.
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Rachel Fletcher @rafletcher.bsky.social · Nov 14
Gosh. Hello, new followers! I assume you found me through the lexicography starter pack, so I'd better justify my existence in it.
I spent three years in ELT lexicography, but am currently in academia, where I'm working on the history of Old English scholarship (including OE dictionaries!)
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jonathanfruoco.bsky.social
Chaucer in the Age of Medievalism needs you! In the wake of our conference, we are now preparing a collective volume and seeking additional chapters to complement the proceedings. Please share widely!

#medievalsky

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Appel à articles : Chaucer in the Age of Medievalism
Following the Chaucer: Here and Now exhibition (2023–2024) at the Bodleian Library, the conference Chaucer in the Age of Medievalism—sponsored by the Modernités médiévales association and the New Chau...
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November 21, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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bibliojenni.bsky.social
If you love insular manuscripts & have always wanted to visit Hereford Cathedral's chained library, 2026 is the year to come! Shaping Early Medieval Faith: The Hereford Gospels will run 30 March-12 September 2026. More details, including about the manuscript's palimpsest, coming soon.
Mappa Mundi & Chained Library Museum. Shaping Early Medieval Faith: The Hereford Gospels. Monday 30 March-Saturday 12 September 2026. Discover the inner life of the oldest manuscript at Hereford Cathedral, the Hereford Gospels. Made circa 800AD, the Hereford Gospels symbolise the continuity of the the community at Hereford Cathedral. Shaping Early Medieval Faith explores how the Gospels were created through the centuries. It shares the results of new scientific imaging which has revealed secrets hidden within the manuscript's pages. Alongside the Gospels themselves are some of the oldest texts in the chained library, chosen to show what early medieval Christians might have been listening to or reading. Monday-Saturday, 10am-5 pm.
November 19, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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lynneguist.bsky.social
Dictionaries 46:2 (2025) is now available (open access!) on
@projectmuse.bsky.social
Read here about: Arabic in China, Wittgenstein & Austrian German, etymology, Georgian learner-lexicography, antedating & linguistics pedagogy + Cambridge Handbook of the Dictionary review

muse.jhu.edu/issue/55471
Project MUSE - Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America-Volume 46, Number 2, 2025
muse.jhu.edu
November 19, 2025 at 4:29 PM
rafletcher.bsky.social
Cambridge Dictionary #WOTY 2025 is "parasocial" (a word my autocorrect hasn't quite got to grips with yet...): dictionary.cambridge.org/editorial/wo...
The Cambridge Dictionary Word of the Year 2025
Cambridge Dictionary has announced parasocial as its Word of the Year 2025. Learn what parasocial relationships mean in social media, AI companions, fandom culture and celebrity obsession.
dictionary.cambridge.org
November 18, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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wokestudies.bsky.social
Grímur Jónsson Thorkelín (1752–1829), National Archivist of Norway and Denmark, and Professor of Antiquities at Østfold University College, translated the Old-English manuscript of Beowulf into Latin (1815).
TITLE PAGE: Old-English manuscript of Beowulf translated into Latin (1815). G. J. Thorkelin, De Danorum rebus gestis secul. III & IV : Poëma Danicum dialecto Anglosaxonica : ex Bibliotheca Cottoniana Musaei Britannici / edidit versione lat. et indicibus auxit Grim. Johnson Thorkelin, 1815.
November 17, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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lynneguist.bsky.social
Macquarie Dictionary has a #WotY2025 short list

www.macquariedictionary.com.au/have-your-sa...
Macquarie Dictionary Word of the Year Shortlist
Have your say on the Macquarie Dictionary People's Choice 2025 Word of the Year! Check out this year's shortlist before you vote.
www.macquariedictionary.com.au
November 17, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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helontheweb.bsky.social
Dorothy Whitelock Lecture 2025: Guthlac: what the early medieval records tell us
3 December 17:15
St Peter’s College chapel, New Inn Hall Street, Oxford
@ox.ac.uk

Join the event in person or online.
www.english.ox.ac.uk/event/doroth...
Dorothy Whitelock Lecture 2025: Guthlac: what the early medieval records tell us
www.english.ox.ac.uk
November 16, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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lynneguist.bsky.social
I'm soon going to have to start thinking about my US-to-UK and UK-to-US Words of the Year. Nominations welcome!!

Here's an old blog post explaining what qualifies as a SbaCL WotY: separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com/2022/11/woty...
WotY news and Lynneguist news
separatedbyacommonlanguage.blogspot.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:12 AM
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hltn.bsky.social
✍ Introducing ✍

Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography

gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/

AKA What I Did Over Reading Week.

#skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing.

Love g 🗃️
Sharpie
Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for apprentice Early Modern palaeographers
gjhilton.github.io
November 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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dgplacenames.bsky.social
Made a site where you can practise Old English scansion. You get given a half-line and have to select which of Sievers's five types it belongs to.
Just Beowulf for now, but that's 6364 half-lines to be getting on with: dgplacenames.github.io/scansion/

[Data: clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/]
November 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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petermgilliver.bsky.social
Prudence Elizabeth Frances Walter (1859–1941) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a brief piece about her. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-quotatio...
October 19, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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petermgilliver.bsky.social
Cornelius Paine (1809–90) is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/the-quotatio...
October 17, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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toebi.bsky.social
📣 Kemble Lecture 2025 #TOEBI #medievalsky
📜‘Myths and Monsters: Beowulf and the Etymologists’
🗣️Prof. Richard Dance, University of Cambridge
📅Thursday, 13 November 2025, 5pm
🏫Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin
💻Register for Zoom: tcd-ie.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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📣 #TOEBI #medievalsky Kemble Lecture 2025
📜‘Myths and Monsters: Beowulf and the Etymologists’
🗣️Prof. Richard Dance, University of Cambridge
📅Thursday, 13 November 2025, 5pm
🏫Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin
💻Register for Zoom: tcd-ie.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
October 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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londonmedievalsoc.bsky.social
We're absolutely delighted to invite you to this upcoming symposium on Nineteenth-Century Medievalisms, co-organised by the New York Medieval Society and the LMS!

It will take place on 18 Oct 2025. Please join through this link: us02web.zoom.us/j/8729115924...

We look forward to seeing you all! 🙂
September 18, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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petermgilliver.bsky.social
The elusive H. S. Bhide is my latest #OEDMaker, and here’s a piece about him. Also available on Facebook to @DictionarySocNA members and at themakersoftheoed.wordpress.com/miscellaneou...
October 7, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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doctorwaffle.substack.com
In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:
Screen cap of parodic version of William Blake's "The Tyger" that begins: Tyger! Tyger! Burning bright (Not sure if I spelled that right) What immortal hand or eye Could fashion such a stripy guy? What the hammer that hath hewn it Into such a chonky unit? Did who made the lamb make thee, Or an external franchisee?
October 2, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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dclberlin.bsky.social
#OTD 342 years ago, Elizabeth Elstob (1683–1756) was born 🥳 A translator and a pioneer of Old English studies, she authored "The Rudiments of Grammar for the English-Saxon Tongue", the first Old English grammar written in English.

#LinguisticBirthdays #WomenInLinguistics #Histlx
September 29, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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A global collection of conversations revealing how dictionaries have evolved and influenced language across twenty different traditions.

Conversations on Dictionaries edited by Ilan Stavans

Pre-Order today!

#Linguistics #LangSky 📚

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September 8, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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hwaetspur.bsky.social
Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Postdoctoral Research Associate
Are you passionate about early medieval Britain?  Do you have advanced knowledge of Medieval Latin and interested in the analysis of Latin letter-writing?  If yes, then you may be interested in this f...
jobs.kent.ac.uk
September 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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petermgilliver.bsky.social
I guess I should share this, as I'm in it. On the other hand, if you read it and don't think you'll be interested in the conversations with any of the other lexicographers in the book, then you're that much less likely to buy the book. But what the hell.
lithub.com/how-to-build...
How to Build a Dictionary: On the Hard Art of Popular Lexicography
At the end of the first quarter of the twenty-first century, about 400 million people are native English speakers. With those for whom English is a second language, the number reaches far above: betw…
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September 29, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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post-doc-club.bsky.social
Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...
September 29, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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norseincork.bsky.social
4-year funded PhD in Old Norse-Viking Studies at UCC, working on the Literature & Art strand of the NorseMap Project. www.ucc.ie/en/hr/vacanc...
September 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social
The elephant rides again! 🐘 Join us on a journey from the palaces of Baghdad, through the streets of Córdoba and all the way to the forests of Aachen #medievalsky
princetonupress.bsky.social Princeton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · Sep 24
Now in #paperback, The Emperor and the Elephant by @samottewillsoulsby.bsky.social is a new history of Christian-Muslim relations in the #Carolingian period that provides a fresh account of events by drawing on Arabic as well as western sources.

Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/paperb...
The Emperor and the Elephant: Christians and Muslims in the Age of Charlemagne by Sam Ottewill-Soulsby
September 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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petersokolowski.bsky.social
A scolding usage note, from Webster's 1864.

Does anyone know of such things (as an organized category of typeset notes) in an earlier dictionary?

@misterslang.bsky.social @jessesword.com @jacklynch000.bsky.social
September 24, 2025 at 7:01 PM