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waitress (iou) and Ventris, Michael (George Francis) (sh)


waitress (iou)



waitress noun & verb. L16.
[from WAITER + -ESS1.]
A. noun.
A woman's handmaid. rare. Only in L16.
A woman employed to serve at table in a hotel, restaurant, large house, etc. M19.
Comb.: waitress service service by waitresses in a restaurant etc. (opp. self-service).
b. verb intrans. Work as a waitress. Chiefly as waitressing verbal noun. M20.

Ventris, Michael (George Francis) (sh)




born July 12, 1922, Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, Eng.
died Sept. 6, 1956, near Hatfield, Hertfordshire

British architect and cryptographer.

At age 14 he heard a lecture on the continuing mystery of Linear B script (see Linear A and Linear B) and resolved to decipher it. In 1952 he determined that Linear B was Greek in its oldest known form, Dating from งใ 1400-1200 BC. He collaborated with John Chadwick (1920-98) on Documents in Mycenaean Greek (1956), published a few weeks after his own death in an auto accident.