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English Archaic and Dialectal Spellings Dictionary

Source: R/data.R
english_archaic.Rd

A dataset of 166 archaic and dialectal English spellings and their modern equivalents, merged from ECHNAE Project sources. Categories include archaic (historical spellings like shew -> show), dialect (regional forms like widout -> without), compound, and legitimate (accepted variant spellings).

Format

A data frame with 166 rows and 5 variables.

Source

ECHNAE Project (MIT)

Variables

  • form. archaic or dialectal spelling

  • replacement. modern equivalent or notation

  • category. type of variant (archaic, dialect, compound, legitimate)

  • notes. additional notes

  • source. data source attribution