Allen Walker Read
Read more: Allen Walker ReadAllen Walker Read, etymologist and scholar of the first order, has died. See the Economist obituary.
May 2002 NADS
Read more: May 2002 NADSLatest newsletter of the American Dialect Society, in PDF format. (180K).
Jan. 2002 NADS
Read more: Jan. 2002 NADSLatest newsletter of the American Dialect Society, in PDF format. (216K).
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