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<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
title=ach@aber.ac.uk href="mailto:ach@aber.ac.uk">Andrew Hawke</A> </DIV>
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Thursday, July 13, 2006 10:00 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> [Lexicog] WELSH DICTIONARY RECEIVES ACCOLADE</DIV></DIV>
<DIV><BR></DIV>It's not often that dictionaries receive attention - especially
those of minority langauges - so I hope colleagues will excuse us for some
blatant self-publicity!<BR><BR><I>Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru</I>, the University
of Wales Dictionary of the Welsh Language, has just been hailed as one of "100
major discoveries, developments and inventions made in UK universities during
the last 50 years that have impacted on the world" in a book entitled <I>Eureka
UK</I> recently published by Universities UK. An "impact" is defined in the
volume as something that "has improved our understanding in a field to such a
degree that this change is comprehensible to everyone". "Researchers", the
book's authors note, "have . . . played a key role in documenting our heritage
for future generations, producing for example the first definitive guide to the
vocabulary of the Welsh language."<BR> <BR>"The dictionary will have a
similar impact on the Welsh language community to that of the Oxford English
Dictionary on the English-speaking world", we are told. "It is the ultimate
authority on the spelling, etymology, and vocabulary of Welsh." It will also
"revolutionise Welsh literary studies, enabling developments in new fields of
linguistic studies, such as Welsh word formation, and Welsh terminology and
translation."<BR> <BR>The first complete standard historical dictionary of
Welsh, it traces the history of each word from the earliest written forms up to
the present. The dictionary, based in Aberystwyth, has been the major project of
the University's Board of Celtic Studies since work began on collecting
materials back in 1921. Publication began in 1950 and was completed nearly 4,000
pages later in 2002 when First Minister Rhodri Morgan launched the fourth and
final volume at the National Assembly in Cardiff. Since then a small staff of
five editors and an assistant have been working on a thorough revision of A–B,
effectively doubling its size, to be completed in 2008 with the financial
assistance of the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales and the
University's own funds. A concise – and free – electronic version of the
dictionary is also available online. Originally based in the National Library of
Wales in Aberystwyth, the dictionary's offices are now located in a new building
alongside the Library.<BR> <BR>Mr Gareth Bevan, one of the two principal
editors of the dictionary, said that he was delighted that the project had
received recognition in such a prestigious book, and that the dictionary's
contribution to the cultural and academic life of Wales had been so readily
acknowledged. Pointing out that Welsh is still very much a living language, he
added "we are always happy to receive additions and corrections to be used in
future revisions." <BR><BR>Dictionary website: <A
href="http://www.wales.ac.uk/dictionary/"
eudora="autourl">www.wales.ac.uk/dictionary/<BR><BR></A><X-SIGSEP>
<P></X-SIGSEP>--<BR>Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru,
Aberystwyth, SY23 3HH<BR>University of Wales Dictionary of the Welsh Language,
National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, SY23 3HH, UK<BR>ff./tel. +44 (0)1970
639094 | ffacs/fax: +44 (0)1970 631039 | ach@aber.ac.uk | gwe/web: <A
href="http://www.cymru.ac.uk/geiriadur/"
eudora="autourl">http://www.cymru.ac.uk/geiriadur/<BR></A>Nid yw'r neges hon o
angenrheidrwydd yn adlewyrchu barn Prifysgol Cymru / This message does not
necessarily reflect the opinion of the University of Wales <SPAN
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