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Words from the Gods

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The apparatus behind the 314-page book: every word tested and what happened to it, the authorities quoted for each entry, and a direct link to every source scan so you can check any quotation against the page it came from.

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  • The evidence table

    PDF · US Letter · 4 pages

    All 145 words in the book, the authorities quoted for each, how many separate claims the entry makes, and which entries end in an open question rather than an answer.

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  • Every word tested — including the ones that failed

    PDF · US Letter · 8 pages

    All 348 words put through the two-authority gate, by theme, showing which dictionaries carried each one and whether it passed. The book prints 145 of them; this is everything else as well.

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  • The sources, and how to open them

    PDF · US Letter · 2 pages

    All thirteen works on the shelf with a direct link to each scan, what was verified about each one, and — stated plainly — the four that were searched and ended up carrying nothing.

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About this material

These three files are Valice Press's own work, generated from the book's research indexes. The works they point at are public domain: eleven from Project Gutenberg and two from the Internet Archive, each listed with the identifier it was actually downloaded from. No entry text from the book is reproduced here.

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