Osgood's concordance was, I think, published under the auspices of the
Carnegie foundation, and appaered in a series of their publications. It
used to be in the (Dewey) 500's, I think, because most of these
publications were scientific. Luckily our library had catalogued this
under Osgood (and finally, after years of my ranting, put it with the
Spenser stuff in the PRs), but I wonder if some university libraries
might have it and no one would know?
Dick Hardin
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At 11:16 AM -0500 1/11/07, Carol Vonckx Kaske wrote:
> > WordHoard has a number of word search features. It does not
> > currently
>> have phrase searching as such, but just search for a word that is
>> likely to be rare (rose, for example) and you'll get a concordance
>> listing of all the places it occurs. This could be particularly
>> helpful if you want to put this passage in context with other places
>> that involve beds, bowers, paramours, etc. See:
>>
> > http://wordhoard.northwestern.edu
>What's wrong with dear old Osgood's Concordance?
Nothing's wrong with Osgood, well, other than the fact that most of us
don't have easy access to a copy. But Wordhoard does quite a bit more
than the unidirectional word searches of a print concordance. It can
locate words by their lemma, spelling, part of speech, frequency, other
words that appear nearby, and several other categories, as well as
various combinations of those categories. Its concordance results are
active links that can take you to the full text of the passages cited,
and every word in a text window is linked to the other occurrences of
that word. It can make a list of words that are much more likely (or
much less likely) to occur in one section of the text than in another.
That's a highly abbreviated overview, but you get the idea; it does
everything a print concordance does and more.
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