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By: Dr Donald Gillies

I worked on this project as part of a Manpower Services initiative. Having graduated in 1981, six months of frustrating unemployment at least did trigger qualification for this Manpower Services Scheme which allowed me 14 months’ work on the project. I had a bizarre experience working through the revised OED from ‘clone’ to corner’, assigning each word and nuance of meaning to a Roget category. Six months of that was rewarded by being assigned to the letter P and I worked for the next period on all words from ‘P’ to ‘para’. One break from this did occur when Christian Kay let me work on draft categorization within some Roget sections. I remember doing some work on Roget 343 ‘Gulf’(why me?) and 451 ‘Philosophy’(one of my Honours subjects,at least). Many surreal moments, a highlight being when we came across the following in the OED: Cornerflag(verb)- To run towards a cornerflag. It did at least stimulate some puerile variations one of which I recall was ‘Cornerpub’ – which we certainly did that day. Delighted to see the project completed.