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Ten Dictionaries
Books Number 188-197

Item date(s): 1998

Keith A. Smith

Size: 141mm
Inscription: Signed and inscribed by the artist.

Place publication: Rochester, NY
Publisher: Artists Book
Book No. 188-197

Additional notes:
This copy printed for Jack Ginsberg. Bound 11-13 March 2007.

Colophon: The dictionaries are bound as a single book. Perhaps, in time, they should be presented as a limited edition set of ten booklets, each in quarter cloth, red. This seems suitable for reference books.

Each dictionary is separated by four pages of black paper.

Exhibition notes:
Beyond Words

JGCBA

20 June - 11 Aug 2023

Ref: GB/11157

Articles

Introduction to the Ten Dictionaries
10pp

Book Number 188: Dictionary of Words Containing the Word ACHE
1989-1998
11pp

Book Number 189: Dictionary of Words, Within Which Are Contained the Word HIS
1989-1998
11pp

Book Number 190: Dictionary of Words, Within Which Are Contained the Word HER
1989-1998
20pp

Book Number 191: Dictionary of Two or More Words Created by Breaking a Single Word
   1989-1998
   155pp
   Not Necessarily into its Syllables.

Book Number 192: Dictionary of New Words Created by Dropping the Apostrophe From Contractions
1989-1998
7pp

Book Number 193: Dictionary of Words Beginning With the Letter S, Which, When Removed, Form Another Word
1989-1998
14pp

Book Number 194: Dictionary of Homonyms
1989-1998
22pp

Book Number 195: Dictionary of Bruisers
   1989-1998
   16pp
   Near Homonymic Words

Book Number 196: Dictionary of Improper Plurals
   1989-1998
   16pp
   The Keith Smith Dictionary of Phonetic, Phony Plurals of Singulars derived from homonyms and unhomonymic sources.

Book Number 197: Dictionary of Diminishing Returns of Words Beginning With the Letter S
   1989-1998
   23pp
   Removing the initial letter, in this case, the letter s creates a new word. The initial letter of the new word is removed, if it will form a word. The initial letter of this word is removed, if it will form a word, et cetera.