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list of 2,000 important words. The figures in the row headed 
“Not in High School Latin” are statistics on those words of 
our list that are not found in Lodge’s Vocabulary of High 
School Latin. Forty-two of these last mentioned words, whose 
derivatives number 68, are non-classical Latin and are not to 
be found in HarpeVs Dictionary. 
IV. Procedure 
The procedure followed in attempting to attain the three- 
fold object stated at the beginning of this Foreword was as 
follows : 
1. First, the English word list, already described, was 
formed. For this purpose each word in the Teacher’s Word 
Book was looked up in Skeat’s Etymological Dictionary of the 
English Language and its etymological history and source 
word also, if of Latin or Greek origin, were written down. 
Skeat’s Etymological Dictionary of the English Language 
rather than the new Oxford Dictionary was used by the 
authors for greater convenience in handling and because the 
former could be used outside of a library. In the rare in- 
stances in which Skeat’s judgment on a word could not be 
obtained, the word was looked up in the Oxford Dictionary. 
2. The second step was to count the derivatives of each 
source language and to add together their frequency index 
numbers. The records of this step are presented in Tables 
1-7 inclusive. 
3. The third step was the formation of the Latin and 
Greek lists of source words. 
For forming these lists, all words in the English word list 
that traced back to a common Latin source word had first 
to be grouped together. The same was true of Greek de- 
rivatives. 
In forming these lists, for the purpose of verification, every 
Latin word was looked up a second time in Harper’s Latin 
Dictionary and every Greek word was looked up a second 
time in Liddell and Scott’s Greek-English Lexicon. 
4. The fourth step was the compilation of the statistics 
in Table 8. 
Tho reasonable care has been observed in this work, it is 
impossible that it could be free from some mistakes and in- 
accuracies. It is trusted and believed, however, that these 
