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Mind your language

Big changes in little words

Why scholars need to annotate ‘ill’, ‘out’, ‘free’ and ‘perfect’

1 February 2014

9:00 AM

1 February 2014

9:00 AM

I managed to grab the TLS last week before my husband stuffed it in his overcoat pocket and lost it at his club. It had a very enjoyable review by Sir Brian Vickers of the Cambridge edition of Ben Jonson. I understood much of it and agreed with most. A point I applauded was the need to annotate not only rare words but also deceptively simple words with a different meaning in Jonson’s day.

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