The Anglo-Norman Dictionary project (AND), since 2001 directed by Professor David Trotter and based in the Department of European Languages, Aberystwyth University, has been awarded the Prix Honoré Chavée by the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres in Paris. The AND started life in 1947 when a “glossary committee” met in Oxford, to discuss the compilation of a dictionary (or at that stage, a glossary) of Anglo-Norman, the form of French in use in Britain as a result of the Norman Conquest in 1066. At first a spoken language, later increasingly used in writing alone, Anglo-Norman was extant from 1066 until the mid-15th-century, lingering on in legal language, and leaving a lasting impact on English especially in vocabulary. The AND set out, more than 60 years ago, to record this language and was thus also the beginning of a attempt to document the entirety of its usage, and the words it was made up of. Initially, the AND was very “literary” in its coverage, but towards the mid-19...