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Alphabetical order in modern Old English glossaries and dictionaries

Alphabetical order in modern Old English glossaries and dictionaries. long and short vowels are not differentiated (like older Icelandic dictionaries) æ used to be treated as ae , coming between ad and af . In later works, incl. Baker, it is a letter which follows a – a,æ,b,c ...

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Alphabetical order in modern Old English glossaries and dictionaries

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  1. Alphabetical order in modern Old English glossaries and dictionaries • long and short vowels are not differentiated (like older Icelandic dictionaries) • æ used to be treated as ae, coming between ad and af. In later works, incl. Baker, it is a letter which follows a – a,æ,b,c ... • ð and þ are treated as the same letter, coming after t.

  2. Icelandic alphabetical order for Anglo-Saxons..... • accented vowels (á é í ó ú ý ú) are not differentiated in older works; now they are, so á comes after a. • þ, ð, æ and ö are added after z. So: u, ú, v, (no w), x, y, ý, z, þ, ð, æ, ö. But of course no word begins with ð.

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