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Thread #25270 Message #297656
Posted By: Malcolm Douglas
14-Sep-00 - 09:39 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Alison Cross / Allison Gross (Child #35)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Allison Gross
There is also (assuming we're not talking about the same thing) A "Working" KWIC Concordance to Francis James Child's The English and Scottish Popular Ballads (1882-1898) by Cathy Lynn Preston, University of Colorado. I've only so far tried one of the (large) zipped files available, and once unzipped they have to be given a .ps or .eps extension so that programs such as Photoshop can read them (text editors would be a serious nightmare, as they display all the associated code!); however these do seem to be, well, concordances rather than straight transcriptions. Maybe later files will prove to contain the actual texts rather than a comparative list of words and phrases, though given the source I rather doubt it. Something, perhaps, to explore at leisure...
Malcolm