Talk:Allen Walker Read

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I Just wanted to say, that in the following book: Siegel, Norbert: Geschlechtsspezifische Unterschiede hinsichtlich Häufigkeit und thematischer Inhalte bei Toilettengraffiti; Institut für Graffiti-Forschung; Wien; 1992 The missing citation is given on Page 44 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 84.57.199.103 (talk) 09:55, August 20, 2007 (UTC)

Taboo on his scatalogy

I question the wording abt "American publishers", in light of the following:

Allen Walker Read's paper in American Speech 9:4 (1934). This is something to begin with. According to Read, _fuck_ is cognate with Latin _pungere_ 'to knock, strike'. Formally & semantically, this is more probable than not.

per http://www3.iath.virginia.edu/lists_archive/Humanist/v05/0605.html
It seems he could say some of it, among scholars, before the French edition, even if an American edition of the book was not feasible.
--Jerzy•t 07:57, 18 September 2007 (UTC)

Essay on goodbyemag.com (linked externally) not found

The goodbyemag pages now only exist in internet archives, the essay can be found at http://web.archive.org/web/20070311095336/http://www.goodbyemag.com/oct02/read.html 82.132.136.145 (talk) 14:03, 3 January 2009 (UTC)

Funk & Wagnalls

Is it worth noting that he was the chairman of the editorial board of the 1964 Funk & Wagnalls? I can provide further detail if someone thinks that fact is relevant to the article. (BTW, one of the best opening sentences of any Wikipedia article I have encountered!) -- Cimon Avaro; on a pogostick. (talk) 00:44, 12 September 2011 (UTC)

Some sources for further expansion

https://www.nytimes.com/1988/05/25/arts/an-ear-for-the-english-of-the-english.html (profile, dictionary of Briticisms)

https://www.nytimes.com/1977/02/27/archives/where-one-is-from-isnt-always-whatchacallit.html (quoted as expert)

https://www.nytimes.com/1962/11/25/archives/birthdate-of-ok-set-back-to-1839-english-professor-reopens.html (about him)

https://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/06/magazine/on-language.html (quoted as expert)

https://www.nytimes.com/1976/12/27/archives/modern-language-association-scholars-find-study-of-bogus-words-an.html (quoted as expert)

https://www.nytimes.com/1963/12/19/archives/tv-5-men-of-words-values-in-modern-american-english-are-examined.html (brief mention)

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1179/nam.2003.51.1.55 (obituary)

https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/a-23-a-2002-10-23-3-1-83111172/117929.html (mentioned)

https://scua.library.uni.edu/university-archives/biographies/allen-walker-read (university summary as alumnus)

https://www.jstor.org/stable/42580006 (obituary)

https://www.thefreelibrary.com/In+memoriam%3A+Allen+Walker+Read+(1906-2002)-a0125988049 (obituary, text of above)

https://www.generalsemantics.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/61-4-bailey.pdf (obituary)

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1989/09/04/at-play-in-the-language (New Yorker profile)

I will be using these to expand the page and would appreciate help from anyone else interested! Ganesha811 (talk) 01:04, 8 March 2022 (UTC)