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Sayers, Dorothy L., quoted in Oxford English Dictionary, 31
schizophrenia, 211212, 214
Scotland Yard, 14, 15, 17
Scott, Maggie (Maggie Murray), 3435, 36
Scriptorium
at Mill Hill, 112113
at Oxford, 149150, 181, 207
sesquipedalian, in Oxford English Dictionary, 75
Sewell, James, 40
Shakespeare, William, 80, 81, 82, 83, 84
Shaw, George Bernard, quoted in Oxford English Dictionary, 30
Shorte Dictionarie for Yonge Beginners (Withals), 83
slips. See quotation slips
Smith, W. E., Reverend, 165
Smollett, Thomas, 89
Spanholtz (attendant at Broadmoor), 200, 202
St. Elizabeth's (Washington, DC). See Government Hospital for the Insane
St. Thomas's Hospital (Lambeth), 11
Stanhope, Philip Dormer (4th Earl of Chesterfield), 9394, 97
Strand (magazine), 171
Stubbs, William, 40
Sunday Star (Washington, DC), 171
Sweet, Henry, 37, 40
Swift, Jonathan, 91
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Table Alphabeticall ... of hard unusual English Words (Cawdrey), 84
take, in Dictionary of the English Language, 9596
Tarrant, Henry, 3, 4, 11, 12, 13
Taylor, Judith Manchester, 47, 126, 157, 186
The Times, 164
quoted in Oxford English Dictionary, 31
Thesaurus (Cooper), 82
Thompson, E. Perronet, 165
Thompson, Edith, 165
Trench, Richard Chenevix, 78, 79, 107, 147
proposal for a new dictionary, 102107
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Universal Etymological Dictionary (Bailey), 88
Unregistered Words Committee, 107
Ure, Andrew, Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines, 148
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Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 164
Voltaire (Françoise-Marie Arouet), 98
volunteer readers
duties, 108, 109, 113
Furnival's appeal for, 108
Murray's appeal for, 113, 127128, 130
proposed by Trench, 106
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Ward, William, 4, 11
Waterloo Station, 6
Webster, John, Duchess of Malfi, 83
Wilson, Thomas, Art of Rhetorique, 82, 85
Winsor, Justin, 175
Withals, Shorte Dictionarie for Yonge Beginners, 83
Wood, Anthony, 80
word requests, 130
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Yale University, 15, 113, 190, 216
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