Foreword: (1) a short piece written by someone with a name to
introduce and elucidate upon the positive values associated with
a written work; (2) a way to get your name into someone else’s
book; (3) something the author asks someone else to do because
it would be unseemly to write it himself; (4) something the
publisher says will increase sales.
Forword: (1) a program that does forensics for Word docu-
ments; (2) a way to get a software product I used in a case once
advertised surreptitiously in someone else’s book; (3) something
I slipped past the editors; (4) something my publisher says will
increase my sales of Forword.
If a “glossary” glosses over things, then Rob Slade has a
“bug” in his title.While most of us have our own definitions of
words,