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Abstract

This book is the culmination of a long-term project concerned with the digitisation of Joseph Wright’s (1855–1930) English Dialect Dictionary (EDD, 1898–1905), which Manfred Markus and his team have developed at the University of Innsbruck. Starting in 2006, the first stage of the project, which was called SPEED (Spoken English in Early Dialects), sought “to digitise and exploit the six-volume English Dialect Dictionary” (Markus et al. 2010: 7) coinciding with an increasing “keen interest in computerised lexicography, on the one hand, and Late Modern English, on the other”.