The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 19.0498 Friday, 22 August 2008
[1] From: David Crystal <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 21 Aug 2008 10:35:20 +0100
Subj: Re: SHK 19.0488 The Crystals' Shakespeare's Words Website
[2] From: Philip Weller <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 21 Aug 2008 10:04:09 -0700
Subj: Re: SHK 19.0488 The Crystals' Shakespeare's Words Website
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From: David Crystal <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 21 Aug 2008 10:35:20 +0100
Subject: 19.0488 The Crystals' Shakespeare's Words Website
Comment: Re: SHK 19.0488 The Crystals' Shakespeare's Words Website
Many thanks for the feedback on our newly rebuilt site. Be delighted to receive
any suggestions for improvement. It's difficult to anticipate everything, and
the more people use the site the more we'll get it right. In the present case,
the problem is simple and I think can be quickly solved. In our text database
(the Penguin edition), we have 'football-player' with a hyphen. Type it in that
way and you will find the Lear instance (the only one). Type in 'aqua-vitae'
with a hyphen and you get four, along with the two unhyphenated forms you've
found. This reflects editorial inconsistency in the source texts we used.
Clearly, we need to allow for all hyphenated forms to be found as spaced forms
too. We'll get my teccie team to look into this directly, and I'll let Shaksper
know when it's done. In the meantime, thanks for the pointer.
David Crystal
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From: Philip Weller <This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.>
Date: Thursday, 21 Aug 2008 10:04:09 -0700
Subject: 19.0488 The Crystals' Shakespeare's Words Website
Comment: Re: SHK 19.0488 The Crystals' Shakespeare's Words Website
"football player" can be found via the search engine at Open Source Shakespeare:
http://www.opensourceshakespeare.org
--Philip Weller
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