[Ads-l] E. Ward Gilman obit

[Amy West]

I'm still catching up on e-mail that I had to let slide over the past month.

A friend who is still at Merriam-Webster let me know a couple of weeks 
ago that the initial editor/creator of the M-W Dictionary of English 
Usage, E. Ward Gilman, has died. I know that Arnold Zwicky was an 
admirer of Gil's work.

Here is Gil's obit:

https://www.firtionadams.com/obituary/Eugene-Gilman

Let me just say that it is just weird seeing him styled as "Eugene W. 
Gilman." In the office, he was known as Gil. As you'll see in his 
various credits, he styled his name E. Ward Gilman, leading some to call 
him "Ward". But no one ever used the Eugene or a form of it.

---Amy West

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org