Allen Walker Read (June 2, 1906 – October 16, 2002) was an American etymologist and lexicographer. Born in Minnesota, he spent much of his career as a...

misspelling of "all correct". This origin was first described by linguist Allen Walker Read in the 1960s. As an adjective, OK principally means "adequate" or...

serious candidates and "a few of the more picturesque or preposterous". Allen Walker Read surveyed a variety of explanations in a 1964 article titled "The Folklore...

essay by him. "Language Revision by Deletion of Absolutisms," by Allen Walker Read. Paper presented at the ninth annual meeting of the Semiotic Society...

Jess Stein, Woodford A. Heflin, Robert Ramsey, Louise Pound, and Allen Walker Read. Cragie retired to Watlington, England in 1936. He was elected an...

broad Yorkshire". Studying a large number of these advertisements, Allen Walker Read noticed an exception: runaways were never advertised as having London...

names like actor Steve Allen, psychologist Albert Ellis, scientist and visionary R. Buckminster Fuller, linguist Allen Walker Read, and philosopher F. S...

or toilet stalls. An important work in the study of latrinalia is Allen Walker Read's Lexical Evidence from Folk Epigraphy in Western North America: A...

in 1702) and "Connecticutensian" (Samuel Peters in 1781). Linguist Allen Walker Read suggests the more playful term "Connecticutie". "Nutmegger" is sometimes...

so why not John the Fucker, if that was his most salient quality?" Allen Walker Read rejects this connection; although it was certainly commonplace at...

four volume edition was completed with the help of George Watson and Allen Walker Read. The group referenced early literature depicting American regional...

corresponding verbal expression coalesced, the English professor Allen Walker Read dates the expression's rise in usage to an 1839 humor piece in the...

newspaper publisher; father of Phil Knight, founder of Nike Inc. Allen Walker Read - linguist and etymologist Harry E. Siman - Nebraska State Senator...

Read of Delaware was signatory to the Declaration of Independence and US Constitution. Note: Some people appear in multiple subsections. Allen Walker...

Christian Rask (Denmark, 1787–1832) Indo-European comparative linguistics Allen Walker Read (US, 1906–2002) English language glossary James Redhouse (UK, 1811–1892)...

Allen Walker (Japanese: アレン・ウォーカー, Hepburn: Aren Wōkā) is the fictional protagonist of the manga series D.Gray-man, which was created by the Japanese artist...

Alphabet Museum in Waxhaw, North Carolina. The museum housed the Allen Walker Read Library (collection of books from a noted American etymologist and...

(1907–2000), editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English, Allen Walker Read (1906–2002), Clarence L. Barnhart (1900-1993), Laurence Urdang (1927–2008)...

1977: Eugen Baer 1978: Thomas G. Winner 1979: Max H. Fisch 1980: Allen Walker Read 1981: Richard Bauman 1982: Harley C. Shands 1983: Irmengard Rauch...

Marquardt, Fedor I. Nikanov, Abraham Tauber, Mimi (Mary F.) Delcuve, Allen Walker Read, Irving Linn, Jesse Levitt, William C. Woolfson, Max Oppenheimer,...

Fellowships". University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 2022-10-10. "Allen Walker Read". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-10-11...

Society. 94 (1): 1–13. Retrieved 2022-10-11. Martin, Douglas (2002-10-18). "Allen Read, 96, the 'O.K.' Expert, Is Dead". The New York Times. New York City, New...

from the original on October 19, 2015. Retrieved October 24, 2015. Read, Allen Walker (2002). "Where Does That Word Come From?". Milestones in the History...

Hippensteel, Chris; Bogel-Burroughs, Nicholas; Londoño, Ernesto; Baker, Mike; Walker, Mark (June 14, 2025). "What We Know About the Minnesota Shooting Suspect"...

cancer. Harry Ferrier, 82, Scottish football player and manager. Allen Walker Read, 96, American etymologist and lexicographer. Henri Renaud, 77, French...

expansion of the CIA, and a developed sense of independence under the DCI Allen Dulles exacerbated the problem of the US Intelligence Community's freedom...

events in 1839 aboard the slave ship La Amistad. Producer Debbie Allen, who had read the book Amistad I in 1978, thought Spielberg would be perfect to...

told Look magazine that his father left Boston because of job signs that read: "No Irish Need Apply." The Kennedys spent summers and early autumns at their...

Jon (2016). Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush. Random House. ISBN 978-0-8129-7947-3. O'Donnell, John R.; Rutherford...

from the original on May 17, 2024. Retrieved May 27, 2024. Howe, Daniel Walker (Winter 1995). "Why Abraham Lincoln Was a Whig". Journal of the Abraham...