List of Contents:    Introduction  C. P. BIGGAM: Old English colour lexemes used of textiles in Anglo-Saxon England   Julie COLEMAN: Slang terms for money: a historical thesaurus  Fiona DOUGLAS and John CORBETT:  'Huv a wee seat, hen': evaluative terms in Scots   Philip DURKIN: Lexical splits and mergers: some difficult cases for the OED  Andreas FISCHER: Of 'f?¦deran' and 'eamas': avuncularity in Old English  Roger LASS and Margaret LAING: $ho:fian{*}/vK2: a LAEME-based lexical study  Caroline MACAFEE: The rhyme potential of Scots   Terttu NEVALAINEN and Heli TISSARI: Of politeness and people  Michiko OGURA: ME 'douten' and 'dreden'   Jane ROBERTS: What did Anglo-Saxon seals seal when?  Jeremy J. SMITH: Notes on the medical vocabulary of John Keats  Jane STUART-SMITH and Claire TIMMINS: 'Tell her to shut her moof': the role of the lexicon in 'TH-fronting' in Glaswegian   Louise SYLVESTER: Forces of change: are social and moral attitudes legible in this 'Historical Thesaurus' classification?   Irma TAAVITSAINEN: Key word in context: semantic and pragmatic meaning of 'humour'  James MCGONIGAL: Lexicographical Lyrics  Notes on the Contributors   Tabula Gratulatoria

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