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KEY TO THE GLOSSARIES 
All the Glossaries are arranged in three principal columns. On the left,
preceded by page and line numbers of Joyce's respective works, occurs verbatim
et literatim the word or phrase to be glossed. The central column prints
in Latin or Greek as the case may be (designated respectively L or G) the
original of the word or phrase Joyce has used. The third or righthand column
translates the word or phrase into English, or provides an explanatory comment,
or on occasion does both. 
 Because the contents of the Glossary for Finnegans Wake are to be incorporated
into a computer-readable "polyglossary" of all the foreign languages in Finnegans
Wake, a new system of enumeration for entries in that Glossary has been adopted,
going beyond the convention established by Clive Hart's Concordance. Each
word or phrase is now designated not only by page and line, but also by an
alphabetical letter indicating the position of the word in the line. Therefore
the word "Trinitatis" on page 240, for example, is labeled 240.10 G, indicating
it is the seventh word of the tenth line on that page. Words divided at the
end of a line are counted only as the last word in that line, and do not
enter at all into the word-count of the succeeding line upon which they are
concluded—the first complete following word on the next line counts
as word "A" of that line. Typographical peculiarities of Finnegans Wake produce
certain problems in enumeration, which are resolved as follows: 
 1) The hundred-letter thunderword: Occurrences of this word extend over
from two to three lines of text. Each such word has been arbitrarily divided
into segments of five letters each, regardless of syllabification, and each
such group of five letters counted as a separate word. Thus the Greek word
"—bronnton—," composed of letters 35-43 of the first occurrence
of the thunderword, is cited as 003.15 I-K. Two words precede the thunderword
on line 15, 50 that the first five letters of the latter constitute 003.15
C; the "—b—" of "—bronnton—" is the last letter of
group I, "—ronnt—" is group J, and "—on—" uses the
first two letters of group K. 
 2) The Triv-and-Quad chapter: This chapter presents two kinds of problems,
as follows: (a) Right and left marginal, or shoulder, notes: after the page-number
each note is first marked L or R to designate Left or Right margin, then
by an arabic numeral to indicate the number of the note in