An amazing opportunity!

The OED is advertising summer internships at their Oxford offices for General Editor and Science Editor! For all you lexicophiles who would like to gain hands-on experience in what it means to write a dictionary, apply here: https://public.oed.com/about/oed-internships/

Deadline : 13th January 2019

It's that time of the year again! If you wish to brush up on your festive vocabulary and where it came from, see this post by #OED on all things #Christmas:
https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2017/12/18/oed-christmas-words-yule-noel/

A very OED Christmas | OxfordWords blog

OED Consultant Editor Henry Hitchings unwraps the lexical history of Christmas with a little help from the Oxford English Dictionary.

After our fantastic eDIL talk to Cambridge's Irish Studies Group on Tuesday last week, we are already looking ahead to what's happening next year!

The Spring 2019 Collection in Conferences will feature two fantastic events close to eDIL's heart! Up first, we have the fourth installment in the Codices Hibernenses Series:

7-8 March 2019
'”A little remnant of the work of the ancients”: 23 N 10: the Book of Ballycummin’

Then, in May, another event for all the lexicophiles among you:

A conference on obscure words and language in Irish and Welsh organised by the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies

LEXICOGRAPHY EVENT--CFP closing SOON!

See the CfP for the international conference >>E-dictionaries and e-lexicography<<, which will be held on 10 and 11 May 2019 in Zagreb. The CfP is closing on 1st December 2018! Only three days left!!

Find more information on the conference here:
http://ihjj.hr/mreznik/page/e-rjecnici-i-e-leksikografija/8/ (in Croation and English)

Busy times…

Next week, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh & Sharon Arbuthnot will be talking about 'Text-speak and French Turkeys: Exploring Ireland's History Through Some Early Irish Words'.

The talk will take place on Tuesday, 27 November, at 8.45pm, in The Parlour, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge.

As always, if you're in a position to come along, please do!

A huge ‘thank-you’ to everyone who came along to ‘Words You Didn’t Know You Needed’ on Monday evening and who joined in with the quiz, laughed on cue and generally gave us such a warm reception. We can only hope that BÁNBHIA ‘dairy products’ and FIODHCHAT ‘mousetrap’ are now part of your everyday speech! 😀

A final reminder that, if you are in or about Belfast tomorrow, we would love to see you for ‘Words You Didn’t Know You Needed’, a free talk/quiz looking at fun, quirky and curious words from medieval Ireland.

Monday, 19th November, 6.00pm, Peter Froggatt Centre, Queen’s University, Belfast, Room 02/018. See you there!

If you are in or near Belfast…

Please come along to our free talk/quiz on Medieval Irish, which forms part of this year’s Being Human festival of the humanities. Entitled ‘Words You Didn’t Know You Needed’, the event will be presented by Professor Greg Toner and Dr Sharon Arbuthnot. Details as follows:

Monday, 19 November 6-7pm
Peter Froggatt Centre, QUB (Room /02/018)
Everyone welcome
Bring your phone … and spread the word!

https://beinghumanfestival.org/event/words-you-didnt-know-you-needed/

Words You Didn’t Know You Needed - Being Human

Fun and informative, ‘Words You Didn’t Know You Needed’ is an interactive quiz-based performance which aims to stimulate interest in broad concepts of language renewal, obsolescence and change, and to build awareness of the varied history of the Irish language in particular. The event focuses ...

In the lead-up to our event in Belfast on 19th November for the Being Human festival, I’ve written a short blog on forgotten phrases, the dictionary and what to expect from the 2019 update. It’s called ‘Modern Words from Medieval Ireland.

https://beinghumanfestival.org/modern-words-from-medieval-ireland/

On Saturday, at the Tionól of the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, Professor Máire Ní Mhaonaigh showcased some of the changes that we will be making when eDIL is updated in 2019, including words that will be listed for the first time, new senses that will be added to existing entries, and ghost words that will be 'busted'. Favourite new addition so far? DO UCHTBIDGADAR 'they were shaken to the core’, literally ‘they breast-jumped’ (Stair Nicoméid 28.518)!

Marie-Luise Theuerkauf and Máire Ní Mhaonaigh will be holding a workshop on eDIL at this year’s Tionól of the Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies. The event takes place on Saturday, 3rd November, between 10.10 and 11.00am, and everyone is very welcome to attend.

Following the success of last year’s event, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh (eDIL) and Richard Dance (the Gersum project) will be taking part in the Cambridge ‘Festival of Ideas’ again this year. The theme this time is ‘The Long and the Short of It: Words and Their Extremities in the Languages of Early Medieval Britain and Ireland’ and the presentation promises to look at ‘everything from æ and mo to hwæthwugununges and fianamailecharadhartai’! The date is Wednesday, 24 October (5-6pm); the place is the English Faculty, West Road, Cambridge. This is very much an event for the general public, so please come along and bring a friend!

https://www.festivalofideas.cam.ac.uk/events/long-and-short-it-words-and-their-extremities-languages-early-medieval-britain-and-ireland

TEACHERS!!

We are delighted to announce the award of a grant from the University of Cambridge Arts and Humanities Impact Fund which will enable staff from eDIL to work with secondary school teachers (in the Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and England) to prepare resources for modules on medieval history and Irish language, and for use in student independent research projects (EPQs etc.). If you are a teacher who would like to get involved, please contact Máire Ní Mhaonaigh at mnm21@cam.ac.uk. If you know of anyone who might like to be involved, please spread the word!!

The final meeting of the eDIL Advisory Board took place yesterday in Belfast.

Sincere thanks for your input and support over the years:

Prof. Liam Breatnach
Dr Anthony Harvey
Prof. Séamus Mac Mathúna
Prof. Ruairí Ó hUiginn
Prof. Roibeard Ó Maolalaigh
Dr Jürgen Uhlich

It's great to see that other historical dictionary projects are also doing great!!
The "Dictionary of Old English: A to I" is now online and can be found here:

https://tapor.library.utoronto.ca/doe/

In addition to new entries for the letter "I", the "DOE: A to I" has added new headwords to some of the previously published fascicles. Recent additions include new compounds, high-frequency words such as "ic", and even some mysterious vocabulary from Beowulf!

The DOE is one of hundreds of sources used by eDIL, which means that their work will enrich our work as well!

In a weeks' time, from 5-8 Sept 2018, the Annual Colloquium of the Henry Sweet Society will be held in Maynooth University. Apart from papers on Irish, Welsh, Cornish and Pictish, among others, there will also be contributions on Patagonian, Japanese, Aztec, and Yiddish!
Check out the conference programme here:
https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/sites/default/files/assets/document/HSS_Programme_0.pdf