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...

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician and businessman who was the 43rd president of the United States from 2001 to 2009. A member...

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

L. Nederlander, LaChanze, John Gore, et al. & Juliet Book by David West Read, Music & Lyrics by Max Martin and Various Artists Max Martin & Tim Headington...

the World. University of Chicago Press. pp. 99–112. ISBN 9780226779997. Walker, W.F. (1982). Study of the Cat with Reference to Human Beings (4th revised ed...

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...

they had never been able to read them. And with Walker providing the code cards, this was one-half of what they needed to read the messages. The other half...

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

Turner Marguerite Empey Marian Stafford Rusty Fisher Marion Scott Gloria Walker Alice Denham Jonnie Nicely Elsa Sorensen Janet Pilgrim Betty Blue Lisa Winters...

experienced a case of cryptomnesia, which was that she had Canby's story read to her but forgot about it, while the memory remained in her subconscious...