Allen Walker Read

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Allen Walker Read

Communications

#329

World Rank

#577

Historical Rank

#192

USA Rank

Linguistics

#513

World Rank

#668

Historical Rank

#184

USA Rank

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PhD Linguistics University of Pennsylvania
Masters Linguistics University of Pennsylvania
Bachelors English University of Pennsylvania

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According to Wikipedia, Allen Walker Read was an American etymologist and lexicographer. Born in Minnesota, he spent much of his career as a professor at Columbia University in New York. Read's work Classic American Graffiti is well regarded in the study of latrinalia and obscenity. His etymological career included his discovery of the origin of the word "OK", a longtime puzzle, and his scholarly study of the history and use of the common English vulgarity "fuck."

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Allen Walker Read's Published Works

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Published Papers

A dictionary of American English on historical principles (1938) (65)
American Projects for an Academy to Regulate Speech (1936) (50)
The Beginnings of English Lexicography (2003) (41)
The Anatomy of Dirty Words. (1963) (37)
The First Stage in the History of "O. K." (1963) (31)
The Second Stage in the History of "O. K." (1963) (29)
Successive Revisions in the Explanation of "O. K." (1964) (26)
The Folklore of "O. K." (1964) (23)
Later Stages in the History of "O. K." (1964) (23)
The Speech of Negroes in Colonial America (1939) (23)
An Obscenity Symbol (1934) (22)
Lexical Evidence from Folk Epigraphy in Western North America: A Glossarial Study of the Low Element in the English Vocabulary (1935) (20)
Approaches to Lexicography and Semantics (1973) (14)
A Type of Ostentatious Taboo (1964) (13)
British Recognition of American Speech in the Eighteenth Century (1980) (13)
An Account of the Word ‘Semantics’ (1948) (12)
The Spread of German Linguistic Learning in New England during the Lifetime of Noah Webster (1966) (10)
Milestones in the History of English in America (2002) (8)
Could Andrew Jackson Spell (1963) (8)
Amphi‐Atlantic English (1935) (7)
Bilingualism in the Middle Colonies, 1725-1775 (1937) (6)
Pronunciation of the Word 'Missouri' (1933) (6)
The Philological Society of New York, 1788 (1934) (5)
Edward Everett's Attitude towards American English (1939) (4)
The Collections for Pickering's 'Vocabulary' (1947) (4)
WORDS CRISSCROSSING THE SEA: HOW WORDS HAVE BEEN BORROWED BETWEEN ENGLAND AND AMERICA (2005) (4)
"The Semiotic Aspect of Alfred Korzybski's General Semantics" (1982) (4)
Lexical Evidence from Folk Epigraphy in Western North America (1935) (3)
Suggestions for an Academy in England in the Latter Half of the Eighteenth Century (1938) (3)
The Geolinguistics of Verbal Taboo (2004) (3)
Family Words in English (1962) (3)
The Contemporary Quotations in Johnson's Dictionary (1935) (3)
The Spelling Bee: A Linguistic Institution of the American Folk (1941) (3)
The Disinterment of Milton's Remains (1930) (3)
The Scope of the American Dictionary (1933) (2)
Noah Webster's Project in 1801 for a History of American Newspapers (1934) (2)
Observations on Iowa Place Names (1929) (2)
A Personal Journey through Linguistics (1991) (2)
Onomastic Devices in the Poetry of Rupert Brooke (1982) (2)
Walt Whitman's Attraction to Indian Place Names (1980) (2)
Classic American Graffiti (1979) (2)
The American Reception of Botta's Storia della guerra dell' Independenza degli Stati Uniti d'America (1937) (2)
Craigie, Mathews, and Watson: New Light on the Dictionary of American English (1986) (2)
The Sources of Ghost Words in English (1978) (2)
Webster's third new international dictionary a symposium (1962) (2)
The Membership in Proposed American Academies (1935) (1)
Is the Name United States Singular or Plural (1974) (1)
The English of Indians (1705-1745) (1941) (1)
Competing lexicographical Traditions in America (1986) (1)
The Incantatory Use of Place Names in American Literature (1982) (1)
The Courtis-Watters illustrated golden dictionary for young readers (1971) (1)
THE SEGMENTING OF MEANINGS IN LEXICOGRAPHICAL PRACTICE (1973) (1)
The Rebel Yell as a Linguistic Problem (1961) (1)
The dialogue concerning tyndale (1931) (1)
THE SOCIAL IMPACT OF DICTIONARIES IN THE UNITED STATES (1973) (1)
Dreamed Words: Their Implications for Linguistic Theory (1969) (1)
Speech defects and mannerisms among slaves and servants in colonial America (1938) (1)
Margaret M. Bryant's Work in Linguistics (1974) (0)
The Basis of Correctness in the Pronunciation of Place-Names (1933) (0)
The Word Blizzard (1928) (0)
Language Revision by Deletion of Absolutisms (2004) (0)
ENG volume 2 issue 3 Cover and Back matter (1986) (0)
Introduction to a survey of Missouri place-names (1934) (0)
British travellers on George Washington's English (1938) (0)
Needed Research in American English [1943]: A Symposium (1964) (0)
The Place of "Mysticism" and "Occultism" in the Scientific Orientation. (1983) (0)
Notes on Kuethe's Criticisms of the DAE (1940) (0)
The World of Joe Strickland (1963) (0)
Obituary: Clarence Lewis Barnhart, 1900-1993 (1994) (0)
Early poems : Pico della Mirandola : Richard III : The four last things (1931) (0)
The Bear in American Speech (1935) (0)
"Liberty" in Iowa (1931) (0)
Words Indicating Social Status in America in the Eighteenth Century (1934) (0)
The Adjective 'American' in England (1950) (0)
Louise Pound 1872–1958: In Memoriam (1959) (0)
The Grammar of Double Talk (1977) (0)
Exuberance, A Motivation for Language (1988) (0)
Report of the Lexicography Committee (1969) (0)
The Challenge of Place-Name Study. (1971) (0)
America, naming the country and its people (2001) (0)
Comments Responding to Probert's "Law Talk and Words Consciousness" (2004) (0)
The Rationale of 'Podunk' (1939) (0)
These Parallel Lists (1940) (0)
Literary Place Names (0)
The Prospects of a National Place–Name Survey for the United States (1970) (0)
The Pronunciation of Place Names on the Frontier, 1829-1830 (1938) (0)
Nantucketisms of 1848 (1935) (0)
The Bemusement of Americans over Place Names In England (1985) (0)

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