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	Allen Walker Read (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Read adduced such evidence in an attack on the taboo of the word fuck in his essay “An Obscenity Symbol” (1934) in which he argues for liberating the word, without mentioning it a single time.
		Read’s most famous quest was for the origins of the term OK. Any number of etymologies had been suggested, proposing origins as diverse as the German phrase Ohne Korrectu, meaning without correction, the Haitian rum port of Aux Cayes, and the civil war biscuit manufacturer Orrin Kendall.
		Allen Walker Read’s scholarly ambit was not constrained solely by bemusing words, and he considered his work on them as something of a sideline.
	www.goodbyemag.com /oct02/read.html (1169 words)

	Education \| Allen Read
		Scrutinising newspapers from the 1840s, which he knew to be the term's birth period, Read discovered that it stood for "Old Kinderhook", a reference to the eighth US president, Martin Van Buren (1837-41), a native of Kinderhook, New York.
		One example against standards that Read liked to quote was the arbitrary naming of the Rocky mountains, which had been known in 1804 as the Northern Andes, and had subsequently been called the Stony, Shining, and even Enchanted mountains.
		Read was born in Winnebago, Minnesota, got a master's degree from the University of Iowa at the age of 20, and won a Rhodes scholarship to study at Oxford.
	education.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,4542371-110843,00.html (578 words)

	a pilgrim in paradise: SAT OCT 19: ALLEN WALKER READ
		Allen Walker Read, a playful prospector of the American tongue who hunted down the source of words like Dixie and Podunk, phrases like the almighty dollar and, most famous of all, those ubiquitous initials, O.K., died on Wednesday at his home in Manhattan.
		Read solved the "O.K." mystery in a series of articles in American Speech in 1963 and 1964, causing "much gnashing of teeth by other etymologists, who had themselves lusted for the laurels of `O.K.,' " according to an article by Michelle Stacey in The New Yorker in 1989.
		Read saw words as playthings and told The New Yorker that "jubilance is an explanation for a lot of the things that happen in language." He loved and studied slang, euphemisms, pig Latin, double talk, adult baby talk and graffiti.
	www.2idiotsinaboat.com /pilgrim/archives/000149.html (923 words)

	Rev. Walker Montecure Allen, 1819-1899
		Allen have eagerly awaited the arrival of Wednesday night, Feb. 13, upon which occasion they were to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their marriage.
		Allen received at the front door and admitted the guests into the front hall, which was comfortably heated, and the bright lights and evergreen hangings were in marked contrast to the chilly and snow covered world without.
		Allen invoked the blessings of God, and a sumptuous repast was then served from the table in the center of the room.
	www.cumberland.org /hfcpc/minister/AllenWM.htm (2763 words)

	Who Was Who in Name Study
		Allen Walker Read summarized her work in her festschrift in Names 22: 3 (September 1974), from English in the Law Courts (1930, reprinted 1962) to such works as Functional English Grammar, Modern English and Its Heritage, and Current American Usage (1962).
		In collaboration with Allen Walker Read and Esther Gladys Leech, he compiled the Introduction to a Survey of Missouri Place-Names, and it was published in 1934 as 9.1 of the University of Missouri Studies.
		Read gained national notoriety in 1941 when he determined that the earliest published use of O.K. (for “oll korrect”) was in an 1839 Boston newspaper.
	www.wtsn.binghamton.edu /onoma/Default.htm (14251 words)

	LINGUIST List 4.694: Etymology of OK
		In any case, as Read documents, "O.K." had spread to New York by the summer of 1839 and the New Orleans by the fall, in both cases prompting newspaper articles (quoted extensively by Read) remarking on and explaining the acronym craze, sometimes glossing "O.K." as "all correct", sometimes leaving it unglossed.
		On the etymology of O.K.: I've heard the Read explanation before, although I must admit that I haven't read the original articles, and I've never been convinced that the association of the initials of Old Kinderhooks (or Oll Korrekt, for that matter) with O.K. is sufficient evidence of an etymological relation.
		I have read (although I don't have the source off-hand, so I may be wrong) that O.K. has been documented in print a few years before the presidential campaign in question, which casts a shadow of doubt on the etymology.
	www.ling.ed.ac.uk /linguist/issues/4/4-694.html (1384 words)

	FreeWebspace.net Community - What does OK stand for?
		Its origin was the subject of scholarly debate for many years until Allen Walker Read showed that OK is based on a joke of sorts.
		It is largely based on the research of Allen Walker Read as set forth in much greater detail in several issues of American Speech in 1963 and 1964.
		Professor Read seems rather to expect earlier evidence to be unearthed--a small-town Illinois newspaper in 1840 claimed that the abbreviation craze originated in Chicago in 1835--but it has not been discovered yet.
	www.freewebspace.net /forums/printthread.php?t=43046 (384 words)

	EducationGuardian.co.uk \| Special Reports \| Obituary: Allen Read
		Despite being a distinguished etymologist and English professor at New York's Columbia University for nearly three decades, Allen Read, who has died aged 96, was frequently just called "the OK man".
		The tag originated in 1941 when Read confounded his fellow scholars by discovering an older origin of the term "OK".
		OK did not stem from "okeh" or "oke", as used by the Choctaw native Americans; nor did it come from the Haitian port of Aux Cayes, the Greek phrase "olla kalla", meaning "all good", or from a tasty US army biscuit made by Orrin-Kendall.
	education.guardian.co.uk /obituary/story/0,12212,836156,00.html (578 words)

	OK guy dies
		Among etymologists, Allen Walker Read, 96, who died Wednesday in New York, was known as the man who discovered the original usage of "OK."
		Years later, Read dug deeper and found an earlier source for the word - a Boston newspaper in 1838 that playfully used initials for such phrases as G.T.D.H.D. (give the devil his due) and O.K.K.B.W.P. (one kind kiss before we part).
		Read, who was born in Winnebago, Minn., on June 1, 1906, earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Northern Iowa and a master's degree from the University of Iowa and was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University.
	www.phrases.org.uk /bulletin_board/16/messages/593.html (313 words)

	Columbia Missourian - A trip through History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Perhaps the most surprising collection is that of linguist Allen Walker Read, a professor of English and semantics who taught MU freshmen from 1926 to 1928.
		Read’s diaries, in which he wrote from 1925 until at least 1969, document every detail of his life, from meals to social encounters.
		William Stolz, a senior manuscript specialist at the collection, said that Read went on to become a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and a professor at Columbia University in New York.
	www.digmo.com /utown/story.php?ID=11823 (1086 words)

	Obituaries: 10/21/02
		Go ahead!" This, Read wrote in 1941, was the origin of the word that later became ubiquitous in almost every language throughout the world.
		Read, who was born in Winnebago, Minn., on June 1, 1906, earned a bachelor's degree from the University of Northern Iowa (then known as Iowa State Teachers College) and a master's degree from the University of Iowa and was a Rhodes scholar at Oxford University.
		Read throughout his life grappled with what language should and could be to a people.
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	Yukon Ok (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		It is said that Andrew Jackson, when asked about his usage of the two letter acronym on bills, responded that OK stood for"oll korrect," a phonetic misspelling of "all correct."
		Allen Walker Read wrote six articles in the journal American Speech in 1963 and 1964 on theorigins of the word.
		He dismissed the Choctaw origins as mythic folklore, emphasizing the possibility that "OK" arose as a cuteabbreviation.
	www.witchware.com /File/26274-Yukon.Ok.Html (421 words)

	OK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		He sought words that he said had “a racy, human quality”, and there were none racier than the graffiti collected by Mr Read during a trip of several months through the western United States and Canada in the summer of 1928.
		Mr Read had the book printed in Paris in 1935, perhaps encouraged that James Joyce had first published “Ulysses” there in the 1920s.
		In 1963 Mr Read said that he had come across it in an issue of the Boston Morning Post dated 1839, in what was apparently a satirical article about bad spelling it stood for “Oll Korrect”.
	spazioinwind.libero.it /ldngl/people/etim.htm (1021 words)

	languagehat.com: READ NOT OK.
		The recent obituaries for Allen Walker Read focused on his claims for the etymology of "O.K." as an acronym for "Old Kinderhook" [or "oll korrect"]; he promoted these claims so assiduously that they have made their way into most dictionaries.
		The fact that they seldom, if ever, wrote the expression or used it in formal discourse does not mean they did not use it"), he is convincing enough that I have corrected my dictionary accordingly.
		I have received a communication from linguist Paul Chapin, who says "I always found Allen Walker Read perfectly charming and never overbearing." I suspect Jim Fay may have overstated his case, and I am happy to present this counterevidence.
	www.languagehat.com /archives/000457.php (267 words)

	Books at Duke University Press
		A collection of essays by one of the premier historians of American English, Milestones in the History of English in America is a remarkable introduction to Allen Walker Read’s work and the ways in which archival materials can illuminate linguistic history.
		This volume is divided into four sections: the emergence of American English as a distinct form and the attitudes of both Britons and Americans toward its development; the history of the most distinctive and widespread American coinage, "O.K."; euphemism and obscenity; and an autobiographical section that provides a fascinating portrait of a remarkable American scholar.
		Allen Walker Read is Professor Emeritus of English at Columbia University.
	www.dukeupress.edu /books.php3?isbn=8223-6526-X (136 words)

	ESGS E-prime page
		Allen Walker Read), Ralph Hamilton, Lynn Gates, myself, and David Levine.
		Due to mention of this oddity in a footnote of a paper by Allen Walker Read, Time magazine sent an interviewer to me to discuss E-Prime.
		In a discussion of these matters, the noted lexicographer Allen Walker Read agreed that one should "call attention...
	www.esgs.org /uk/art/epr1.htm (3565 words)

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		Okay is a term of approval or assent, often written as OK slang, its usage is determined by context.
		Contents 1 Origins 1.1 Choctaw Language 1.2 Allen Walker Read 1.3 African Origins 1.4 Popularity 1.5 Other Uses and Apocryphal Explanations 1.5.1 Initials 1.5.2 See Also 2 Reference 3 External links Origins There is some dispute over the origins of this word.
		Allen Walker Read Allen Walker Read American Speech in 1963 and 1964 1830s and 1840s Plattdeutsch / Low Saxon Boston Morning Post on March 23,
	www.en-cyclopedia.com /index1/ok (709 words)

	Allen Walker Read -- an Honorary Unsubscribe
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	WHMC-Columbia--Read, Allen Walker, Papers, (WUNP5663)--PRELIMINARY INVENTORY
		Includes correspondence, photographs, family biographies and genealogies, diaries, teaching and research materials, and writings.
		Orlan B. Read and Bessie Allen Read, Papers
		Allen Walker Read, Letters and Publications sent to Mary Jo Read
	www.umsystem.edu /whmc/invent/WUNP5663.html (154 words)

	Re: O.K.
		The abbreviation is for Open Key, popularized by telegraphers in the 1860s.
		It comes from the names of Lords Onslow and Kilbracken, who initialed bills after they were read and approved in England's House of Lords.
		Professor Read does believe that O.K. "certainly was popularized" by the use of Martin Van Buren's nickname, Old Kinderhook, (See No. 5) during the presidential campaign of 1840.
	www.phrases.org.uk /bulletin_board/17/messages/40.html (827 words)

	Table of contents for Library of Congress control number 2001051269
		Table of contents for Milestones in the history of English in America / Allen Walker Read ; edited by Richard W. Bailey.
		Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog.
		Introduction: Allen Walker Read, American Scholar xi EARLY AMERICAN ENGLISH 1.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/toc/fy035/2001051269.html (210 words)

	Institute of General Semantics: Allen Walker Read
		Allen Walker Read was an inspiration to language lovers everywhere — from pop grammarians to heavy-hitting linguists and etymologists.
		We can look at his long lifetime of work and say — "that was more than O.K." William Safire
		Allen Walker Read's Published Articles on General Semantics
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	Dictionaries table of contents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		David A. Jost, Houghton Mifflin Co., and Allen C. Crocker, Children's Hospital, Boston.
		Survey of the Reading Program of the Middle English Dictionary.
		The Reading Program of the Middle English Dictionary: Evaluation and Instructions.
	polyglot.lss.wisc.edu /dsna/dicstoc79to03.htm (3155 words)

	Gay and Lesbian Humanist – Stateside Gossip – Spring 2004
		Lexicographers are known to ball around, not just sit in some library’s bowels.
		An outspoken freethinker, lexicographer and etymologist, Allen Walker Read, once pointed out that in 1850 “to flash the drag” meant to wear women’s clothes for immoral purposes, that in 1870 “to be in drag” meant men wearing women’s costumes.
		His favorite, he told fellow freethinkers in Manhattan before his death in 2002, was found on a toilet wall in Banff, Alberta, in 1928:
	www.galha.org /glh/233/gossip.html (766 words)

	Allen Walker Read Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
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