Skeat

• “Skeat" is the winner of a competition by Google, to create a gingerbread house using its program SketchUp, including "dynamic candy" in the construction:”

  January 2009

• “The old version of the OED I have, however, says following Skeat that the English word "gun" may derive from the Norse woman's name Gunhilda given to an ancient artillery piece -- or else from a compound of "gun" + "hilde", approximately, both of which have martial meanings.”

  languagehat.com: A FUNNY STORY.

• “Skeat considers the English word was taken from the Welsh _caban_, rather than from the French, and that the original source for all the forms was Celtic.”

  Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"

• “Incidentally, Skeat père makes no mention here of his close collaboration with J.A. H. Murray on the original Oxford English Dictionary:”

  Archive 2009-08-01

• “Tim, I just looked at the Distributed Proofreaders link Cally posted and boy do I wish I had time to get to the "hard poetry" level in time to proof the Skeat I have sitting on my bookshelf here...and there are pulldown menus for all sorts of diacriticals and things.”

  Making Light: Amazon & Macmillan

• “If your Skeat is out of copyright, I can see if I can find someone to Project Manage it through DP for you, given scans.”

  Making Light: Amazon & Macmillan

• “Depending on what you want that Skeat edited, it's probably available via the Oxford Text Archive.”

  Making Light: Amazon & Macmillan

• “An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language, by Walter W. Skeat, explains that peak and pique have a common heritage.”

  Word Court

• “Yule says that according to Skeat, "scarlet" also traces back to "sakkalat", and first meant the kind of cloth, and only later meant a certain color of this cloth.”

  languagehat.com: MORE PYNCHONIAN VOCAB.

• “Skeat said commerce had spent millions of rands installing security cameras in the city in a bid to stop crime.”

  ANC Daily News Briefing

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