Notes and Queries

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Notes and Queries
ISSN
0029-3970
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Notes and Queries, also styled Notes & Queries, is a long-running

scholarly journal that publishes short articles related to "English language and literature, lexicography, history, and scholarly antiquarianism".[1] Its emphasis is on "the factual rather than the speculative".[1] The journal has a long history, having been established in 1849 in London;[2] it is now published by Oxford University Press
.

The journal was originally subtitled "a medium of inter-communication for literary men, artists,

Dickens's novel Dombey and Son
.

It is the 250th-most-quoted source in the Oxford English Dictionary (3rd ed.), giving 1,633 quotations, many being first evidence of a word or a particular meaning.[3]

Format

Notes and Queries was first published in 1849 as a weekly

newsgroup.[4]

Many of the entries in the journal for its first seventy years were only a few paragraphs long, and occasionally as short as a sentence or two. Very frequent contributors include the Rev.

Walter W. Skeat, one of the most important figures in the field of English etymology, and Eliza Gutch, a founding member of The Folklore Society. The foundation of such a society was suggested by Gutch through a query to the publication. Gutch contributed to the publication for over seventy years, using the pseudonym "St Swithin".[5][6]

Today the magazine is produced as an academic journal. The articles are typically much longer than they were during the journal's early years, though they are still shorter than those of the typical academic journal. In addition, the "Notes" now far outweigh the "Queries", and book reviews have also been introduced. The focus is now almost entirely on literature.

19th- and 20th-century editors

Namesakes

Over 20

American Notes and Queries.[9] There are also Canadian Notes & Queries
and Kōtare: New Zealand Notes and Queries.

Notes and Queries has also given its name to a number of columns and sections within wider-ranging publications. These include a regular "Notes & Queries" feature in The Guardian newspaper, started in November 1989.[10]

Anthologies

The following

anthologies of selections from Notes and Queries have appeared.[11]

Year Title Publisher
1857 Milleducia: A Thousand Pleasant Things selected from Notes and Queries Appleton
1858 Choice Notes from Notes and Queries Bell & Daldy
2017 Captain Cuttle's Mailbag: History, Folklore & Victorian Pedantry from the Pages of "Notes and Queries" Laboratory Books

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c From the inner sleeve of all modern issues of Notes and Queries.
  2. ^ a b c d e Notes and Queries, Series 1, Volume 1, Nov 1849 - May 1850, via Internet Archive
  3. ^ "Notes and Queries". Oxford English Dictionary. Retrieved 27 February 2016.
  4. ^ GENUKI Yorkshire Notes and Queries. Archived 2012-02-02 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ Jacqueline Simpson (Editor), Steve Roud (Editor) (2003). A Dictionary of English Folklore. Oxford University Press
  6. ISBN 0-907098-04-5
  7. ^ FREDERICK PAGE, 1879–1962, Notes and Queries, Volume 9, Issue 10, October 1962, Pages 362–a–362, https://doi.org/10.1093/nq/9-10-362a
  8. ^ Elrington, C. R. (1988). "One hundred years of Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries". Somerset and Dorset Notes and Queries. 32 (328): 689–694.
  9. ^ American Notes and Queries, via Internet Archive
  10. ^ "15 years of Notes & Queries". guardian.co.uk. 17 November 2004. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
  11. ISBN 9781946053039
    .

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