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The ''Shorter Oxford Dictionary'' (Sixth Edition, 2007) describes '''Glossary''' as “A collection of glosses; a list with explanations, often accompanying a text of abstruse, dialectal or technical terms.” | The ''Shorter Oxford Dictionary'' (Sixth Edition, 2007) describes '''Glossary''' as “A collection of glosses; a list with explanations, often accompanying a text of abstruse, dialectal or technical terms.” | ||
| − | What separates a “Glossary” from an “Index” is the glossary’s use of a (generally) short explanation each word or term; not just a page number (book) or link (wiki). | + | What separates a “Glossary” from an “Index” is the glossary’s use of a (generally) short explanation of each word or term; not just a page number (book) or link (wiki). |
:(“Gloss” from the [[medieval]] [[Latin]], ‘’glossa’’ from the Greek, meaning “difficult word”; is “a word requiring explanation” and is frequently made into a footnote or explained in the margins or between the lines of a book or manuscript.) | :(“Gloss” from the [[medieval]] [[Latin]], ‘’glossa’’ from the Greek, meaning “difficult word”; is “a word requiring explanation” and is frequently made into a footnote or explained in the margins or between the lines of a book or manuscript.) | ||
[[Category: Dictionary]] | [[Category: Dictionary]] | ||
Revision as of 06:02, June 26, 2015
The Shorter Oxford Dictionary (Sixth Edition, 2007) describes Glossary as “A collection of glosses; a list with explanations, often accompanying a text of abstruse, dialectal or technical terms.”
What separates a “Glossary” from an “Index” is the glossary’s use of a (generally) short explanation of each word or term; not just a page number (book) or link (wiki).