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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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)...

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

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

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,...

Mary Read (died April 1721), was an English pirate. She and Anne Bonny were among the few female pirates during the "Golden Age of Piracy". Read was likely...

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

Lily Rose Beatrice Allen (born 2 May 1985) is an English singer, songwriter, actress, and author. Her musical career began in 2005 when she was signed...

Keegan Allen, Mitch Pileggi, Molly Hagan and Coby Bell were cast as Micki, Walker's female partner, Liam Walker, Walker's younger brother, Bonham Walker, Walker's...

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...

woman also spoke, and audio recordings of Walker were shared. The woman read out letters that she said Walker wrote, including one to her which stated:...

Leicester, England, into a working-class family, Allen was the elder of two brothers. His mother could neither read nor write. His father, William, was a factory...

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...

an African-American onion farmer. She rejects the advances of Charles Walker, the richest man in town, who is nicknamed "Trout" because his feet smell...

calling for his mother – he was calling to Rose asking Walker to make sure that she was safe. Allen hires a cleaner to clean the house, but when Grace finds...

in anime, films, and video games. Some of his notable roles include Allen Walker from D.Gray-man, Death the Kid from Soul Eater , Korekiyo Shinguji from...