What Is an Index?: A Few Notes on Indexes and Indexers —— A Few Notes on Indexes and Indexers

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ISBN: 9781333050610 出版年：2018 页码：137 Henry B Wheatley Forgotten Books

Such is still its meaning, and it is in this sense that the Index Society would wish their title to be understood. There is a group of words, viz. Index, Table, Register, Calendar, Summary, and Syllabus, all of which were once generally used with much the same signification; but as soon as Index had been recognized as a thoroughly English word, it beat its companions in the race, although it had a long struggle with the word Table.