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The Middle English Compendium: Past, Present, Future

Ti Middle English period spans roughly the years 1150-1500 and presents a complex social and linguistic culture. The English used during this period varied according to region, and the language changed in pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, and spelling habits over these three to four hundred years. Middle English was thus not uniform and static but formed a continuum of different dialects, shifting and changing over both space and time, and influenced in various ways, particularly in its lexis, by contact with the other languages used within the country.2 The written varieties of Middle English are preserved in a huge body of literary texts and documents of all kinds, and the print MiddleEnglish Dictionary (MED), completed in 2001 under the editorship of Robert E. Lewis, and based on about three million quotations drawn from this mass of texts and records, offers a rich and reliable record of the lexis and usage of this