John Algeo
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Theosophist, Professor of English
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, John Algeo was an American academic, trained as a linguist, and the author of one of the standard American textbooks on the history of the English language. He was also a Theosophist and a Freemason. He was the Vice President of the Theosophical Society Adyar and, was a Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Georgia.
John Algeo's Published Works
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Published Works
- Problems in the origins and development of the English language (1964) (394)
- A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language. By Randolph Quirk, Sidney Greenbaum, Geoffrey Leech, and Jan Svartvik. London: Longman. 1985. x + 1779 (1987) (273)
- The Barnhart dictionary of etymology (1989) (182)
- Words and Rules: The Ingredients of Language (2000) (120)
- Fifty years among the new words : a dictionary of neologisms, 1941-1991 (1993) (117)
- African-American English (2001) (117)
- Blends, a Structural and Systemic View (1977) (99)
- British and American Grammatical Differences (1988) (98)
- British or American English? : a handbook of word and grammar patterns (2006) (84)
- On defining the proper name (1976) (57)
- The Tag Question in British English: It's Different, I'N'It? (1988) (56)
- Where Do All the New Words Come from (1980) (53)
- BRITISH AND IRISH ANTECEDENTS (2001) (47)
- Early‐Time GPR: A Method to Monitor Spatial Variations in Soil Water Content during Irrigation in Clay Soils (2016) (34)
- English: an introduction to language (1970) (27)
- The Taxonomy of Word Making (1978) (25)
- The Cambridge History of the English Language. Volume VI: English in North America. (2001) (23)
- The New Oxford American Dictionary (review) (2012) (23)
- The Two Streams: British and American English (1986) (22)
- CONTACT WITH OTHER LANGUAGES (2001) (22)
- What Consonant Clusters Are Possible (1978) (21)
- Is a Theory of Names Possible? (2010) (19)
- The Voguish Uses of Non (1971) (18)
- Korean Bamboo English (1960) (16)
- A Black English Bibliography@@@A Comprehensive Annotated Bibliography of American Black English (1974) (16)
- English around the World@@@Englishes: Studies in Varieties of English, 1984-1988 (1993) (15)
- David Crystal The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language (1997) (15)
- A Fancy for the Fantastic: Reflections on Names in Fantasy Literature (2001) (12)
- Desuetude among New English Words (1993) (12)
- An Introduction to Language. 3rd ed. By Victoria Fromkin and Robert Rodman. New York: Holt, Rinehart, and Winston, 1983. ix + 385. Language: An Introduction. By Winfred P. Lehmann. New York: Random House, 1983. xii + 241 (1984) (12)
- Census and Consensus: A Historical Examination of the US Census Racial Terminology Used for American Residents of African Ancestry: Iman Makeba Laversuch (2007) (11)
- Sweet are the usages of diversity (1991) (10)
- A meditation on the varieties of English (1991) (10)
- English in the Southern United States: The origins of Southern American English (2003) (9)
- Spanish loanwords in english by 1900 (1996) (9)
- A Comparison of Ground‐Penetrating Radar Early‐Time Signal Approaches for Mapping Changes in Shallow Soil Water Content (2018) (8)
- British or American English (2006) (8)
- The Briticisms are Coming! How British English is Creeping into the American Language (1990) (8)
- Norman Fairclough Language and Power (1991) (7)
- Glossary of Linguistic Terms (2001) (7)
- Syncope in English (1974) (7)
- THE EMPERORS'S NEW CLOTHES: THE SECOND EDITION OF THE SOCIETY'S DICTIONARY* (1990) (7)
- British-American lexical differences: A typology of interdialectal variation (1989) (6)
- British and American Biases in English Dictionaries (1995) (6)
- Queuing and other idiosyncracies (1989) (6)
- Jenny Cheshire, ed., English around the World: Sociolinguistic Perspectives (1992) (6)
- British or American English?: Parts of Speech (2006) (5)
- Review of “Alphabet to Email: How Written English Evolved and Where It’s Heading” by Naomi S. Baron (2001) (5)
- From Classic to Classy: Changing Fashions in Street Names (1978) (5)
- Bible Belt Onomastics Revisited (1983) (5)
- American English Abroad (2001) (5)
- British or American English?: Nouns (2006) (4)
- Attitudes toward English Usage: The History of a War of Words. By Edward Finegan. New York: Teachers College Press, 1980. Pp. xi + 196 (1983) (4)
- The Toponymy of Middle–Earth (1985) (4)
- English in North America (2001) (4)
- A Dictionary of Briticisms (2012) (4)
- Oz and Kansas: A Theosophical Quest (2012) (4)
- Tagmemics: a Brief Overview (1970) (3)
- Problems in New-Word Lexicography (2012) (3)
- The word weavers: newshounds and wordsmiths (2009) (3)
- Lexical Change and Variation in the Southeastern United States, 1930-1990 (review) (2012) (3)
- Australia as the Land of Oz (1990) (3)
- American English Grammars in the Twentieth Century (1991) (2)
- Trans-Atlantic Street Names (1999) (2)
- Grammar: A Contemporary View Of What Should Be Taught (1981) (2)
- British and American English: odi et amo (1990) (2)
- The GPR early-time method to measure water content of clay soils (2016) (2)
- There's Life in the Old Damenik Yet -After Archy's Life of Mehitabel (1992) (2)
- David Burnley The History of the English Language: A Source Book (1993) (2)
- R. R. K. Hartmann (ed.) LEXeter '83 Proceedings: Papers from the International Conference on Lexicography at Exeter, 9-12 September 1983 (1985) (2)
- Exercises in contemporary English (1974) (2)
- The Australianness Of Australian Placenames (1988) (1)
- Thomas Pyles: Selected Essays on English Usage (1980) (1)
- British English for American Readers: A Dictionary of the Language, Customs, and Places of British Life and Literature (review) (2012) (1)
- The Effects of the Revolution on Language (2008) (1)
- Where did English come from (2012) (1)
- Theory and typology of proper names (review) (2008) (1)
- R. R. K. Hartmann (ed.) The History of Lexicography: Papers from the Dictionary Research Centre Seminar at Exeter, March 1986 (1989) (1)
- Aussie Words@@@The Macquarie Dictionary (1988) (1)
- Among the New Worlds. (1989) (1)
- Aelfric's "The forty soldiers" : an edition (1960) (1)
- Vogue words through five decades (1991) (1)
- A Short History of New-Word Study (2012) (1)
- The Motto of American Speech (2000) (1)
- Etymologies Unknown: Boondoggle (1984) (1)
- THE EFFECTIVENESS OF USING GPR TO MONITOR CHANGES IN SOIL WATER CONTENT IN CLAYEY FLOODPLAIN SOILS DUE TO RAIN EVENTS BEFORE STREAM MODIFICATIONS (2012) (1)
- American English Idiomatic Expressions in 52 Weeks: An Easy Way to Understand English Expressions and Improve Speaking (2008) (1)
- Examples as Textual Evidence in a Dictionary of Briticisms (2000) (1)
- The Nature of Fantasy (2009) (1)
- Wordtree@@@The Wordtree: A Transitive Cladistic for Solving Physical & Social Problems (1986) (1)
- In Memoriam: THOMAS PYLES (1905–1980) (1980) (1)
- Types of English heteronyms (1997) (1)
- National Biases in Dictionaries (1997) (1)
- Selected essays on English usage (1979) (1)
- Up the Language!@@@On Language@@@What's the Good Word? (1983) (1)
- The best of the genre (1991) (1)
- Review of “The History of English in a Social Context: A Contribution to Historical Sociolinguistics” by Dieter Kastovsky and Arthur Mettinger (eds.) (2002) (0)
- Review (2003) (0)
- Keeping "The" Dictionary Current@@@The Barnhart Dictionary Companion: A Quarterly to Update "The" Dictionary (1982) (0)
- Linguistic Marys, Linguistics Marthas: The Scope of Language Study. (1969) (0)
- A Crystal Clear Encyclopedia@@@The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language (1997) (0)
- Harmless Drudgery@@@Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography (1985) (0)
- J. L. Dillard A History of American English (1993) (0)
- Günter Rohdenburg & Julia Schlüter (eds.), One language, two grammars? Differences between British and American English (Studies in English Language). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xxiv + 461. ISBN 978-0-521-87219-5. (2009) (0)
- British English, A to Zed (review) (2012) (0)
- British or American English?: Introduction (2006) (0)
- British or American English?: Interjections (2006) (0)
- Syntactic Change and Syntactic Reconstruction: A tagmemic approach. By John R. Costello (1985) (0)
- Five Reference Books@@@The New Columbia Encyclopedia@@@Trade Names Dictionary@@@Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, and Other Word-Related Books, 1966-1974@@@A Dictionary of Collective Nouns and Group Terms@@@Acronyms, Initialisms, & Abbreviations Dictionary (1976) (0)
- On the Effectiveness of GPR Early-time Analysis for Mapping Soil Water Content (2017) (0)
- Books on the History of English. (1972) (0)
- Henry Rogers. Writing Systems: A Linguistic Approach (2007) (0)
- British or American English?: Propredicates (2006) (0)
- OK: The Improbable Story of America's Greatest Word (review) (2012) (0)
- Presidents of the American Name Society (1999) (0)
- Lexicography: An Emerging International Profession (review) (2012) (0)
- Why Johnny Can't Spell (1965) (0)
- Monitoring Stormwater Redistribution Into Low Resistivity Soils Using Noninvasive Geophysical Techniques (2013) (0)
- Science versus Quackery (1997) (0)
- British or American English?: Preface (2006) (0)
- Discourse Douglas Biber, Variation across speech and writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xiii + 299. (1991) (0)
- The odd way Brits talk (1993) (0)
- The True Story of Max and Moritz: Ancient and Medieval Texts before W. Busch (1999) (0)
- The Awful Alphabet (2001) (0)
- British or American English?: Conjunctions (2006) (0)
- ABiographical Dictionary of the Phonetic Sciences. Ed. Arthur J. Bronstein, Lawrence J. Raphael, and Cj Stevens. New York: Press of Lehman College, 1977. Pp. xxx + 255 (1979) (0)
- Päivi Pahta, Minna Nevala, Arja Nurmi and Minna Palander‐Collin (eds.). Social Roles and Language Practices in Late Modern English. Amsterdam, The Netherlands: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 2010. 241pp. Hb (9789027254405) €95.00/ US$143.00. (2012) (0)
- What shall we call the decades of the twenty-first century? (1994) (0)
- John H. McWhorter. The Power of Babel: A Natural History of Language . (2005) (0)
- American English: Dialects and variation By Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling- Estes (review) (2015) (0)
- Christian Mair. Twentieth-Century English: History, Variation, and Standardization (2008) (0)
- Reports of Conferences, Meetings etc. (1986) (0)
- Stratificational Grammar (1969) (0)
- Review of “Dictionaries: The Art and Craft of Lexicography” by Sidney I. Landau (2002) (0)
- VARIETIES OF ENGLISH (1996) (0)
- British or American English?: Miscellaneous (2006) (0)
- Student Zone: Rutgers University SEG Student Chapter explores geophysics locally and globally (2015) (0)
- Review of “Encyclopedia of the Languages of Europe” by Glanville Price (ed.) (2001) (0)
- British or American English?: Mandative constructions (2006) (0)
- British or American English?: Complementation (2006) (0)
- The Black God and the White Prince: Names of Krishna and Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita (1980) (0)
- GERALD KNOWLES. Patterns of spoken English: An introduction to English phonetics. (1992) (0)
- Review of “Language Policy: Dominant English, Pluralist Challenges” by William Eggington and Helen Wren (ed.) (2002) (0)
- Current Trends in Social Dialects (2007) (0)
- Leonard R. N. Ashley. Language and Modern Society (2004) (0)
- STIG JOHANSSON and KNUT HOFLAND. Frequency Analysis of English Vocabulary and Grammar Based on the LOB Corpus. Volume 2: Tag Combinations and Word Combinations. (1992) (0)
- Dialects in the Classroom@@@"Dialects and Educational Equity." (1981) (0)
- Gunilla Anderman and Margaret Rogers (eds.). In and Out of English: For Better, for Worse? (2006) (0)
- British or American English?: Bibliography of studies, dictionaries, and corpora (2006) (0)
- British or American English?: Determiners (2006) (0)
- British or American English?: Prepositions (2006) (0)
- GEOPHYSICAL INVESTIGATION TO IMAGE A ROMAN-ERA VILLA (2014) (0)
- British and American English (1990) (0)
- Thomas Paul Bon.glio: Race and the Rise of Standard American (2004) (0)
- More False Latin (1966) (0)
- British or American English?: Pronouns (2006) (0)
- Science versus quackery. (1997) (0)
- USING GPR EARLY-TIME AMPLITUDE ANALYSIS TO MONITOR VARIATIONS IN SOIL WATER CONTENT AT A CLAY-RICH AGRICULTURAL SITE IN RESPONSE TO IRRIGATION (2015) (0)
- Grammar Wars: The United States (2019) (0)
- British or American English?: Qualifiers (2006) (0)
- David Crystal. A Glossary of Netspeak and Textspeak (2005) (0)
- Book Review: Spelling and Society: The Culture and Politics of Orthography around the World. By Mark Sebba. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2007. xix + 189. ISBN-13: 978-052-184845-9 (2008) (0)
- Understanding British English (review) (2012) (0)
- A topical work (1993) (0)
- THE AWFUL ALPHABET; The Alphabet versus the Goddess: The Conflict between Word and Image (2001) (0)
- The Shape of English: Structure and History . By Roger Lass (1988) (0)
- British or American English?: Expanded predicates (2006) (0)
- British or American English?: Tag questions (2006) (0)
- Review of “The Politics of language in Ireland 1366–1922: A sourcebook” by Tony Crowley (2002) (0)
- British or American English?: Bibliography of British book citation sources (2006) (0)
- Book Reviews (2007) (0)
- Anglice: An Unrecorded Sense and Two Congeners (1994) (0)
- More Englishes: New Studies in Varieties of English 1988-1994, Even More Englishes: Studies 1996-1997 (2000) (0)
- British or American English?: Adverbs (2006) (0)
- Review of “Languages in Britain and Ireland” by Glanville Price (ed.) (2001) (0)
- Kelsie B. Harder (1991) (0)
- 13. Pan-Atlantic Usage Guidance (1994) (0)
- An Index to Citation Forms@@@Words and Phrases Index (1973) (0)
- Place-Name Study Today@@@Bibliography of Place-Name Literature, United States and Canada (1985) (0)
- Alexander Murray Kinloch - 18 April 1923 — 25 August 1993 (1994) (0)
- Humphrey Tonkin and Timothy Reagan (eds.) Language in the Twenty-First Century: Selected Papers of the Millennial Conferences of the Center for Research and Documentation on World Language Problems, Held at the University of Hartford and Yale University (2005) (0)
- British or American English?: Adjectives (2006) (0)
- Eugene Albert Nida. Fascinated by Languages (2005) (0)
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