AWRead&"UnitedStates"

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

Just so you'll know, Dick Bailey has been hard at work editing Read's
unpublished papers for a volume to be published, one hopes, within the
year--as soon as a publisher has been found and the editing is complete. I
don't know if this particular article will be included or not, but Dick could
tell us.


In a message dated 8/21/2000 6:48:26 AM, abatefr at EARTHLINK.NET writes:

<< Paul et al.


I heard Allen Walker Read give a wonderful paper (like all his papers) on

"United States" some years back at an ANS or ADS meeting.  He was focusing

more on the inhabitant-adjectival uses over the years, but may well have

touched on the singular/plural thing.  I don't know if the paper was

published, but I'd check the index for "Names", the journal of ANS, and also

American Speech.


Frank Abate >>