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New Words - As You Like It

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Topic: New Words - As You Like It

1. Source-Control Position

The preserved Neville Research wiki page is useful as a finding aid, but it is not itself a verified first-use or authorship source. This packet now treats the wiki list as the inherited lead layer and the v10 new-words rerun as the controlling local audit.

The v10 rerun applies the same strict method as the April v8 study:

target play: As You Like It in [local source path removed];
word unit: A0 lemma in the play database;
Shakespeare baseline: matched First Folio plays before the target play's database year, with Henry V excluded because it sits inside the same 1599 France/register problem;
Neville side: [local source path removed];
candidate rule: the lemma appears in As You Like It, is absent from earlier baseline Shakespeare plays, and appears in Neville v10.

Result: the v10 rerun found 19 As You Like It candidate lemmas, the same count as the v8 study. The most book-relevant items remain proposition, copulative, and, with caution, material.

2. V10 Candidate Triage

lemma	target hits	Neville v10 hits	Neville letters	drama plays 1590-1615	non-Folio drama plays	disposition
`proposition`	1	22	12	5	3	Strongest As You Like It vocabulary candidate; diplomatic-register recurrence, not print rarity.
`copulative`	1	1	1	6	5	High-color candidate because Neville's treaty-clause use and the play's comic use share a technical word; sense contrast must be stated.
`material`	1	8	7	18	13	Weak to moderate; Neville's diplomatic/military uses do not match Audrey's comic "material fool" without further sense work.
`amiens`	4	1	1	5	4	Geographic/proper-name overlap, useful for context but not lexical innovation.
`insomuch`	1	6	5	3	2	Candidate by strict method, but likely appendix material unless a phrase/sense argument emerges.
`residue`	1	2	2	4	3	Common administrative/accounting word; low evidential weight.
`bolden`	1	1	1	2	0	Rare in the drama database, but Neville context is later and sense work is needed.
other v10 candidates	11	mixed	mixed	mixed	mixed	`dullness`, `inconvenient`, `purlieu`, `rye`, `debility`, `reference`, `inquisition`, `portugal`, `extract`, `straits`, `divert`, `sundry`; keep as appendix/noise unless individually promoted.

3. Wiki-Layer Terms Not Promoted

The wiki page highlights uncommon or archaic items such as quintain, cicatrice, unbashful, roynish, ducdame, and scrippage. These should not be promoted into Neville evidence merely because they appear in the play's vocabulary list. They are absent from the strict As You Like It / Neville v10 candidate table generated in this pass.

The wiki also lists copulative, inquisition, and material, which do survive the v10 overlap method. Only copulative and proposition currently look strong enough for main-text discussion; material remains sense-fragile, and inquisition is low-weight unless a Spain/Inquisition argument is separately developed.

4. High-Value Source Snippets

proposition: As You Like It uses the phrase "resolve the propositions of a lover"; Neville letter_007 on 26 May 1599 repeatedly uses proposition for written diplomatic points presented to Henri IV and his ministers.
copulative: As You Like It uses "country copulatives"; Neville letter_014 on 18 July 1599 uses copulative for a treaty clause that should no longer be disjunctive.
material: As You Like It has Audrey's "material fool"; Neville uses material in letters about war supplies, news value, and commodities. The overlap is real at lemma level but weak at sense level.

4a. Twitter Thread Batch 01 Update, 2026-06-28

Requested thread #22 adds two controls to this packet:

copulative / copulatives: keep the existing v10 overlap, but note that the exact AYLI form is plural. A singular-only search misses the play form; exact copulatives in the 1590-1615 early modern plays database returns AYLI.
underhand plus dissuade: this is not part of the strict "new word" candidate table, but it is a strong phrase/collocation lead adjacent to this packet. AYLI has "by underhand means labored to dissuade him from it"; Neville letter_030 has "the King did underhand dissuade them from peace."

These notes are preserved in twitter_thread_research_batch_01_france_italy_vocab.md. They supplement the v10 new-words rerun rather than replacing its stricter method.

5. BRO Sweep

A BRO transcription sweep for the promoted and wiki-highlighted terms found no direct As You Like It vocabulary addition. Hits for residue, material, or boldened occur in ordinary estate/accounting or metadata contexts, not in a play-facing lexical lane. The BRO material should therefore not be used to inflate this packet's vocabulary evidence.

6. Citations

Preserved Neville Research wiki page: wiki_new_words_ayli.md.
v10 rerun summary: AYL_TN_NEW_WORDS_STUDY_V10_RERUN.md.
v10 As You Like It candidate CSV: as_you_like_it_new_to_prior_folio_and_in_neville_v10.csv.
v10 watch-term audit: watch_terms_audit_v10.csv.
April v8 study retained for comparison: AYL_TN_NEW_WORDS_STUDY_RESULTS.md.
Current vocabulary-control packet: french_diplomatic_vocabulary_neville_letters_and_shakespeare.md.
Related play packet: play_as_you_like_it.md.
Current corpus-version control: NEVILLE_LETTERS_CORPUS_VERSION_NOTE.md.

7. Notes on Access

This packet remains mixed because the database overlap is verified but the final literary argument still needs sense checks and edition-level line references.
Do not quote the wiki page as if it established first usage. It is a preserved research list; the v10 rerun is the current local control.
The v10 rerun did not make material stronger. It confirms the lemma overlap while also confirming why the term needs caution.