Read with pleasure: thanks for the wonderful new book

[Dennis R. Preston]

If I may add Presidential kudos, Larry couldn't have said it no
better. I still remember the scholarly but so entertaining ADS
address when Allen revealed his internal deliberations over whether,
as a fledging scholar in Britain, he should respond with the locally
ubiquitous "heah" or his native "here" in answering the roll-call. I
am quite sure what he did, but, to his credit, he left us hanging. In
contrast, his scholarship left us hanging only when he could not
produce the impeccably arrayed evidence and careful argument which
characterized every part of his work. This is, indeed, an ADS
treasure.

dInIs



>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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