Larry Urdang

[Russ McClay]

Thanks Grant for the link to the obituary. I liked the last
bit: 

In 1972 he (Laurence Urdang) compiled The New York Times Everyday Reader’s 
Dictionary of Misunderstood, Misused, and Mispronounced Words. It was a 
book that was not supposed to be a comprehensive work, just an enjoyable 
one for word enthusiasts. Or as Mr. Urdang put it himself in the 
introduction:

“This is not a succedaneum for satisfying the nympholepsy of nullifidians. 
Rather it is hoped that the haecceity of this enchiridion of arcane and 
recondite sesquipedalian items will appeal to the oniomania of an eximious 
Gemeinschaft whose legerity and sophrosyne, whose Sprachgefühl and orexis 
will find more than fugacious fulfillment among its felicific pages.”

-r

On Aug 26, 2008 at 07:33 -0400 Grant Barrett transmitted the following...

GB => Poster:       Grant Barrett <gbarrett at WORLDNEWYORK.ORG>
GB => Subject:      Re: Larry Urdang
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GB => The New York Times has an obituary this morning.
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GB => http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/books/26urdang.html