Professor Joshua Whatmough was a roundish, ruddy-faced Briton with a shock of white hair, speaking with no trace of American accent or wording after thirty years in this country. [...] His classroom method was to focus on a word or a significant part of a word, at the same time expanding the range of cognate information in relevant detail on the widest Indo-European scale, while also sub-documenting any exceptions and scholarly objections which might bear on the subject at hand. Everything was in place in his mind exactly as he had worked it out in his view of the subject and the outline of his notes was his unique intellectual property, not materials to be found in available manuals on the subject. He had everything in his mind and at the tip of his tongue without notes, he gave the impression of creating the lecture entirely from current memory as against the lecture-read professorial class notes.

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