Paula Clarke Bain
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![A sample of the first page of the human indexer's index from Dennis Duncan’s INDEX book, set in two columns.
Index
Note to the gentle Reader: Page numbers in italic indicate figures. Page numbers in the form 273n1 indicate endnotes. Entries are sorted in letter-by-letter order, except where noted. This index was created by Paula Clarke Bain, who is a professional indexer and a human being. [PCB]
A, a, a 77,78,79
abbreviations 38, 40, 72, 78, 79, 242
ABC Murders, The (Christie) 39
abecedaria 28, 29, 35
Abish, Walter, Alphabetical Africa 39
abstracting 4, 245, 248
accuracy 15, 64, 98, 100, 178, 252
acrostics 29, 30, 147, 311
active indexes 254
Addison, Joseph 30, 156–7, 159, 174, 186
loathes acrostics 30
portrait 154
Remarks on Several Parts of Italy 156–7
Spectator indexes 173–7
addresses to reader see introductory notes
‘Adventures of a Quire of Paper’ 171–2, 174
advertisements 42, 101, 176, 183, 186, 214, 249
Aeneid (Virgil) 39, 242, 243
Aesop's Fables 144, 146
agencies, indexing 260, 296–7n22
Age of Distraction 9, 251
Age of Enlightenment 170
Age of Industry 205-6
Age of Search 51, 233, 251 see also search
Agoa, Helen S. 243
AI (Artificial Intelligence) 2, 254
aide-mémoire 66, 126
Aitken, Jonathan, goes to jail 137
Akraiphia stones 36
Aldus Manutius, Dictionarium graecum 110
Alexander of Ashby, De artificioso modo predicandi 49
Alexander the Great 30, 93
Alexandria see Library of Alexandria
algorithms 100, 233, 251, 258
Alice stories (Carroll) 177–8, 180, 181
alphabet
Cyrillic 45–6
Greek 29, 36, 71, 89
Hebrew 29
history of alphabets 28–30
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Humour and bias in indexing
Bain and Kingdom #SIConf25
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Willoughby, Holly 115, 242
Winkleman, Claudia 268
Witter, Rosie 19
woggles, golden 21, 22, 23
wokeness 58n
women
angry circle of 98, 213
assistants 171
in Bodyform advert 135-6
broadcasters 42, 220, 237
ephemeral 79
friends (six) 89
lady action heroes 230
#MeToo movement 168-70
Qatari rights quibbles 153, 168
rigid hairdos of politicians 124
superb intuition about 264
trying to disrobe 120
Yentob, Alan 124
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Seaview B&B 108-9, 113, 159
Secombe, Harry, man who looks like 99, 213
Seldom (dog)
origin story 249, 251-2
first meeting 252-3, 253n
first birthday 254
Coca-Cola preference 255
diet of eggs 2
diet of meats 2, 254n, 255
emergency mince 255
friendship with 76, 254-5
as Royalist 262
in Scissored Isle 131
tricky temperament 2, 3, 12n, 131, 254-5, 271
funfair incident 2-4, 12, 34, 255, 282
grief for 11-12, 12n, 28, 67n, 211, 255-6, 261, 262
heavenly transport 78
as lighthouse name 48, 277
post-death messages 34, 46, 271, 282-3
legacy 114, 282
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