THE ENGLISH WORD SPECULUM. VOLUME II. THE FORWARD WORD LIST

Abstract : The Forward Word List consists of the 66,439 'regular' words that occur in the Shorter Oxford. The list is grouped, first, according to the entry in the vowel-stringcount column. Thus, the first set of words, coded A, is a collection of all regular words from the Shorter Oxford that contain an apostrophe in the word field. These are followed by the broken (B) words, the hyphenated (H) words, and then all words having a numberical value in the vowel- string-count column. Within each set, the words are further arranged alphabetically. This arrangement was achieved by a standard sorting routine on a digital computer. It differs substantially from the lexographic ordering of a dictionary that is also termed alphabetic.