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How did dictionary makers keep track of rhyming words or similarly suffixed words, like those ending in -ism, -graphy, -ness, or -ology, before the computer age? With a Backward Index, a collection of 315,000 dictionary words typed out backwards. https://kottke.org/26/05/the-backward-index