After 18 months’ work on the Innsbruck online interface of Wright’s English Dialect Dictionary (EDD; 1898-1905), its new version 4.0 has now been published. This brand-new version represents the final phase of a project that has been carried out by Manfred Markus and his team at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) since 2006.

Free availability and usability
EDD Online is licenced under Creative Commons Licence CC-BY 4.0. This means that we need you to accept the following term of use:
You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the licence, and indicate any changes made.

You are free to:
- share, i.e. copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format.
- adapt, i.e. remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

Find EDD Online 4.0 via: https://eddonline4-proj.uibk.ac.at

THE COMPUTERISED VERSION HAS ESSENTIAL ADVANTAGES:
- It allows for detailed access to the most comprehensive English dialect dictionary ever published, Joseph Wright’s EDD (1898-1905) – the book version of which is, in many ways, inaccessible.
- It covers the time from 1700 (and earlier) to 1904, when traditional areal dialects were still widely spoken, and includes the main English-speaking countries worldwide.
- It provides a sophisticated search tool, which allows for previously unraised questions on eight lexicological parameters to be combined with eight filters and more than a hundred sub-filters

WHAT IS NEW IN EDD ONLINE 4.0?

It offers
- a more user-friendly interface
- corrected algorithms for providing ad-hoc choropleth maps
- improved identification of Wright’s abundant sources

A basic Guide describing the potentials of EDD ONLINE and how to use it is available on its interface. EDD Online 4.0, like its predecessors, was supported by the Austrian Science Fund and the University of Innsbruck.

Linguistic Field(s): Lexicography

Subject Language(s): English, Middle (enm)