S

Sayers, Dorothy L., quoted in Oxford English Dictionary, 31

schizophrenia, 211–212, 214

Scotland Yard, 14, 15, 17

Scott, Maggie (Maggie Murray), 34–35, 36

Scriptorium

at Mill Hill, 112–113

at Oxford, 149–150, 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), 93–94, 97

Strand (magazine), 171

Stubbs, William, 40

Sunday Star (Washington, DC), 171

Sweet, Henry, 37, 40

Swift, Jonathan, 91

T

Table Alphabeticall ... of hard unusual English Words (Cawdrey), 84

take, in Dictionary of the English Language, 95–96

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, 102–107

U

Universal Etymological Dictionary (Bailey), 88

Unregistered Words Committee, 107

Ure, Andrew, Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines, 148

V

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, 127–128, 130

proposed by Trench, 106

W

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

Y

Yale University, 15, 113, 190, 216