• 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...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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  • essay by him. "Language Revision by Deletion of Absolutisms," by Allen Walker Read. Paper presented at the ninth annual meeting of the Semiotic Society...
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    Jess Stein, Woodford A. Heflin, Robert Ramsey, Louise Pound, and Allen Walker Read. Cragie retired to Watlington, England in 1936. He was elected an...
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    in 1702) and "Connecticutensian" (Samuel Peters in 1781). Linguist Allen Walker Read suggests the more playful term "Connecticutie". "Nutmegger" is sometimes...
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    broad Yorkshire". Studying a large number of these advertisements, Allen Walker Read noticed an exception: runaways were never advertised as having London...
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  • names like actor Steve Allen, psychologist Albert Ellis, scientist and visionary R. Buckminster Fuller, linguist Allen Walker Read, and philosopher F. S...
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    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...
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  • four volume edition was completed with the help of George Watson and Allen Walker Read. The group referenced early literature depicting American regional...
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  • 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...
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    corresponding verbal expression coalesced, the English professor Allen Walker Read dates the expression's rise in usage to an 1839 humor piece in the...
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    newspaper publisher; father of Phil Knight, founder of Nike Inc. Allen Walker Read - linguist and etymologist Harry E. Siman - Nebraska State Senator...
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  • Christian Rask (Denmark, 1787–1832) Indo-European comparative linguistics Allen Walker Read (US, 1906–2002) English language glossary James Redhouse (UK, 1811–1892)...
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  • Read of Delaware was signatory to the Declaration of Independence and US Constitution. Note: Some people appear in multiple subsections. Allen Walker...
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  • 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...
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  • Alphabet Museum in Waxhaw, North Carolina. The museum housed the Allen Walker Read Library (collection of books from a noted American etymologist and...
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  • (1907–2000), editor of the Dictionary of American Regional English, Allen Walker Read (1906–2002), Clarence L. Barnhart (1900-1993), Laurence Urdang (1927–2008)...
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  • 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...
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  • Marquardt, Fedor I. Nikanov, Abraham Tauber, Mimi (Mary F.) Delcuve, Allen Walker Read, Irving Linn, Jesse Levitt, William C. Woolfson, Max Oppenheimer,...
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  • Fellowships". University of Pennsylvania. Retrieved 2022-10-10. "Allen Walker Read". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2022-10-11...
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    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...
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  • cancer. Harry Ferrier, 82, Scottish football player and manager. Allen Walker Read, 96, American etymologist and lexicographer. Henri Renaud, 77, French...
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    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...
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  • Hippensteel, Chris; Bogel-Burroughs, Nicholas; Londoño, Ernesto; Baker, Mike; Walker, Mark (June 14, 2025). "What We Know About the Minnesota Shooting Suspect"...
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    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...
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    Archived from the original on 28 February 2015. Retrieved 2 January 2015. Walker, Kate (14 September 2017). "Charles Leclerc, a Teenage Driver, Shows Potential...
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    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...
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    focused his energies on the Internet". Robert W. Orttung and Christopher Walker reported that "Reporters Without Borders, for instance, ranked Russia 148...
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    team reached the playoffs that year. For 2004, Bruce Allen was hired as general manager. After Allen's arrival, both John Lynch and Warren Sapp were released...
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