Jonathan Swift's Word-BookThis Word Book is presumably the only work of Jonathan Swifts not in print, until now. Since the 1690s, Swift had been formulating a list of words and definitions for his protg Esther Johnson, beginning with terms from the Book of Common Prayer. His was apparently an ongoing list, kept rather haphazardly, with open spaces for adding new words. About 1710, when Swift was in London, Johnson, in Dublin, set out to formalize the dictionary, copying out