Tag Archives: OED

A linguistic close-reading of Jane Austen’s Letter 10

Posted on November 20, 2025 by Ingrid Tieken

Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics “No new letters by Jane Austen have been found since the publication of the third edition in 1995,” Deirdre LeFaye concludes in her introduction to the fourth edition of Jane Austen’s … Continue reading →

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Joseph Banks in a Dutch Track Shoot

Posted on September 4, 2014 by Ingrid Tieken

About a year ago, I gave a workshop to our second-year students here at Leiden on eighteenth-century letter writing. To practice their newly acquired skills, the students had to produce a transcription of a letter by Sir Joseph Banks (1743-1820), whose letters … Continue reading →

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OED not (yet) helpful on Turkies

Posted on August 23, 2012 by Ingrid Tieken

Analysing Jane Austen’s spelling in her letters, I found the plural Turkies rather than Turkeys as we spell it today: he hopes all your Turkies & Ducks & Chicken & Guinea Fowls are very well (letter 21) We are just … Continue reading →

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