James Owen Dorsey, John Reed Swanton

“ A grave accent is sometimes employed by Dorsey instead of the acute accent, and in almost all cases it is over an oral particle and indicates a falling tone.
In the Biloxi-English section it has been impossible to reduce all forms under stems which are constant and always consistent, and in some cases it has been found necessary to enter words or portions of words as principal headings, though they are evidently compounds. ”

“ An English explanation in quotation marks is to be understood as a literal translation of the preceding Indian word, and where two or more forms of the same Indian word are given in succession, some accompanied and some unaccompanied by figures, the figures are to be understood as applying only to the form immediately preceding. ”

“ Biloxi words in parentheses without an English translation or explanation are inflections of the verb or noun next preceding, and are given in the following order: Second person singular, first person singular, third person plural, second person plural, first person plural. Dorsey has inverted the usual English order for the reason that in most Siouan dialects the form for the third person singular is identical with the stem and therefore makes a better starting point than the first person. ”