David Barnhart

male
Lexicographer, The Barnhart Dictionary Companion, The Barnhart New-Words Concordance, Barnhart Dictionary of New English, Dictionary Society of North America, International Linguistic Association…AmericanDialectSociety, American
David K. Barnhart (born 1941) is an American lexicographer who specializes in new words. He began his career helping his father, Clarence Barnhart,...
Kelsie B. Harder

Kelsie B. Harder

male, deceased (2007)
University of Florida, Vanderbilt University, World War II, United States Army, library of congress, American…AmericanDialectSociety, American Name Society
Kelsie Brown Harder was an American professor and onomastician (name scholar). Harder was born in Perry County, Tennessee. After serving in the...
Einar Haugen

Einar Haugen

male, deceased (1994)
Harvard University, Norwegian-American, Linguistic Society of America, AmericanDialectSociety, Old Norse, Oppdal…Norwegian American Dictionary/Norsk engelsk ordbok, Society for the Advancement of Scandinavian Study, American
Einar Ingvald Haugen was an American linguist and Professor at University of Wisconsin and Harvard University. Haugen (pronounced HOW-gən) was b...
Erin McKean

Erin McKean

female
Lexicographer, publishing, Editor in Chief American Dictionaries, Scott Foresman, That's Amore, New Oxford American Dictionary…The New Oxford American Dictionary, 2e, American, AmericanDialectSociety, Dictionary Society of North America
Erin McKean is the Editor in Chief of US Dictionaries for Oxford University Press, and the editor of Verbatim: The Language Quarterly , the only...
Calvin Thomas

Calvin Thomas

male, deceased (1919)
Columbia University, University of Michigan, from Michigan, Biographer, Educator, University of Michigan faculty…American, AmericanDialectSociety
Calvin Thomas (1854 - 1919) was an American scholar who served as professor of Germanic languages and literature at Columbia University. He was...
Daisy Dancer

Daisy Dancer

female, 34 years old (Tampa, Florida, United States)
PhD, modern language association, Class of 2008, likes Blogging, likes traveling, likes dancing…AmericanDialectSociety
I'm a New Orleans girl in a PhD program in boring Tampa so I can ultimately return home and land a perfect rhetoric and composition and new media...
Lillie Dremeaux

Lillie Dremeaux

female, 27 years old (Anchorage, Alaska, United States)
single, likes words, likes feminism, class of 2004, likes editing, likes equality…American Friends Service Committee, AmericanDialectSociety
Verbal, generally optimistic, easily amused, always thinking about something.
Marcia Louise Harder

Marcia Louise Harder

female
congress, director, chicago tribune, house, State University of New York, AmericanDialectSociety…American Name Society
Dr. Harder, who taught English for a generation at the State University of New York at Potsdam, was more than a crusader for the rights of the...

Frank Abate

male
oxford university press, dictionary, simon & schuster, oup, house, Project Director…AmericanDialectSociety, American Name Society, Dictionary Society of North America, Oxford American College
Frank Abate is President of Dictionaries International, an independent contractor that provides editorial and consulting services to reference...