THE ENGLISH WORD SPECULUM. VOLUME V. THE REVERSE PART-OF-SPEECH WORD LIST,

Abstract : The English Word Speculum is a series of volumes illustrating the structural properties of written English words. The collection is intended to be used as a complement to the standard dictionaries of English words, and should be of particular value to linguists and students of English. The word list used to generate the volumes consists of left-justified, bold-face words contained in the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, a total of 73,582 words. Information about the parts of speech and status of the words in the list has been drawn from both the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary and the Merriam Webster New International Dictionary, Third Edition. Volume V is constructed by reordering Volume III, the reverse word list. The primary ordering is according to the symbol in the vowel-string-count column. A new secondary ordering is introduced by sorting the records on the merged part-ofspeech field alphabetically. Within this category, the list is further sorted according to the reverse word listing. The largest single set of words with the same part of speech and status is, of course, the standard nouns. Among the 22,000-odd two- vowel-string words, nearly 7,500 are nouns and have the standard designation as such in at least one of the two dictionary sources.