Read with pleasure: thanks for the wonderful new book

[RonButters at AOL.COM]

To all ADS-ers and Friends,
I'm delighted that Larry Horn appreciates the book mentioned below, and I
thank him for all the praise. Aside from Allen Walker Read himself and Dick
Bailey, no one did more to bring this book to our hands than Charles Carson,
the Managing Editor of American Dialect Society Publications. Charles's work
was extraordinary, even for him. Moreover, the unusual size of the book meant
that he had to do somehow squeeze in all of the extra work--above and beyond
all of his other duties.

Charles has probably contributed more to the success of American Dialect
Society publications in the past decade than any other person. I am grateful
for all his good work.

Sincerely,
Ron Butters
Chief Editor, American Dialect Society Publications

In a message dated Tue, 11 Jun 2002 15:50:28 -0400 Larry Horn writes:

>Subject:      Read with pleasure:  thanks for the wonderful new book


>I'm sure every ADS member on the list (and that's all of us, right?)
>will share my enthusiasm over the Allen Walker Read compendium that
>just came in the mail (ADS Pub. #26, _Milestones in the History of
>English in America_).  It contains, inter (many) alia, AWR's
>groundbreaking expose of OK (the real story and the folklore) and
>his...er, muckraking analysis of the F-word, along with
>autobiographical sketches, letters from Tom Paikeday and others,
>various papers on British and (or vs.) U.S. English, and the
>impressive bibliography of AWR's publications.  Kudos to all
>involved, including Ron Butters (for the ADS connection), Richard
>Bailey (editor), Frank Abate (indexer), and my former undergraduate
>student Anne Curzan for their individual and collective help in
>bringing this to us, and of course most of all to the nonpareil Allen
>Walker Read himself.
>
>Larry

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