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The foregoing is merely a sampling and by no means constitutes the full documentation of Skeat's clawing back from the brink of ignominy at having pinched another's work.
Skeat will not in this case ignore this note and repeat the offence at some future time.
Skeat, just three years later--again trusting to his memory, which seems to be particularly faulty with regard to the contributions of other correspondents--returned to the charge, and this time, under the heading of Cambridge , wrote a longish note to the same effect as before, and yet did not even once mention my name.
Lest one might be deceived into taking the preceding to be a pleasantry, even as late as 1909 (at seventy-four), Skeat's contempt for those who knew less than he was undiminished:
Walter W. Skeat, surely one of the greatest linguists of all time and an outstanding innovator of his day (late 19th century), was often given to testy replies when a correspondent to Notes and Queries either disagreed with him or speculated on the etymology of a word without having first looked it up in one of Skeat's works or, if the alphabetic section had appeared, in the Oxford English Dictionary . He was often nasty; but toward the latter part of the 1890s the crust softened, and he mellowed a bit.