biography
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Skeat, W(alter) W(illiam)
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| male
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| lived:
| (1835–1912)
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| biography:
| Philologist, born in London, UK. He studied at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he became a fellow in 1860, and professor of Anglo-Saxon (1878). He was founder and first director of the Dialect Society (1873), and made a major contribution to English philology, editing several important texts. His main works include the Etymological English Dictionary (1879–82), Principles of English Etymology (1887–91), and Chaucer (6 vols, 1894–5). |
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