Acknowledgments
My first thanks are to my scholarly community in rhetorical studies and to The University of Calgary, our Faculty of Arts, and my department of Communication, Media and Film where I have served as associate professor. I spent many years working on this book project while teaching courses and serving as RhetCanada’s president and webmaster. I could have published many articles along the way had I been like the usual scholar. I could not have completed this foundational tome without the job security and the online and physical library resources provided by our excellent research university. The conferences of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric (ISHR) and the Canadian Society for the History of Rhetoric (CSSR, RhetCanada) provided venues for my work in progress.
Secondly, I am thankful for the labor and partnership of my sister, Lea A. Davis, who collaborated in envisioning the Glossary and put most of its fragments together. She was the brain behind the Latin and Greek derivations. Lea also met with me regularly to discuss my manuscript writing and research as it was progressing. I appreciated her skill in English and in languages in general, her insight into history and culture, her organizational and database management skill, her lightning-fast transcriptions of 18th century prose selections, her gentle kindness, sisterly love, and our shared sense of humor.
Thirdly, I benefited from the keen intelligence, subject matter insight, and strategic and moral support of Beth Hewett, my colleague in rhetorical history, who was my online professional coach as I revised the book into a critical anthology in early 2019.
Finally, most of all, I thank my husband, Phil, for his love, companionship and support. As a brilliant independent programmer, puzzle solver, inventor, and lifelong learner, he truly respected the challenges of pursuing such a large, encyclopedic project to completion.