[Ads-l] Fw: Members of the ADS-L Community and the OED

Fri Sep 8 14:13:30 UTC 2023

Just because we are not in a mental hospital doesn't mean we shouldn't be , , , ,

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From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> On Behalf Of Laurence Horn
Sent: Friday, September 8, 2023 9:04 AM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: Members of the ADS-L Community and the OED

Especially since many of those volunteer researchers have made their lexicographic contributions while not confined to a mental hospital for the criminally insane...

On Fri, Sep 8, 2023 at 5:52 AM ADSGarson O'Toole <adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Congratulations to all those fine researchers who have donated their
> time and knowledge to help improve the OED. The acknowledgments from
> the OED are well deserved. Volunteers like William Chester Minor have
> contributed to the OED from the beginning, and we all have benefited.
>
> Garson
>
> On Tue, Sep 5, 2023 at 9:01 AM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> > When I first became obsessed with antedating the OED, I had to
> > frequent
> the largest libraries because the way to do antedating was to randomly
> skim old books or journals or do focused research for particular
> terms.  So I hung out at the two great libraries I had access to, the
> Harvard University Library and the New York Public Library.  One day,
> while I was sitting at a table at NYPL with about 10 very big volumes
> of the OED scattered around me (antedating back them could be
> physically very cumbersome), an elderly gentleman approached me and
> asked why I had so many volumes of the OED scattered around me.  That was David Shulman.
> >
> > Shulman became something of a mentor for me and, I believe, for
> > Barry
> Popik as well.  He boasted that he was actually paid money by the OED.
> I looked up his articles in American Speech.  He told me that he had
> been a cryptographer and had donated his fine collection of books on
> cryptography to NYPL.  He was never a participant in ADS-L.  The fact
> that the OED is still listing him as a significant contributor two
> decades after his death says something.
> >
> > Fred Shapiro
> >
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of
> Bill Mullins <amcombill at HOTMAIL.COM>
> > Sent: Tuesday, September 5, 2023 3:47 AM
> > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > Subject: Fw: Members of the ADS-L Community and the OED
> >
> >
> >
> > I see David Shulman's name listed as well.  Was he a member?  I
> understand he passed away not too long before I became active on the
> list
> (2005 or so).  At any rate, I recall his name and contributions used
> to get mentioned regularly.
> >
> >
> > ________________________________
> > From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of
> Ben Zimmer <bgzimmer at GMAIL.COM>
> > Sent: Monday, September 4, 2023 10:19 PM
> > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > Subject: Re: Members of the ADS-L Community and the OED
> >
> > Thanks for the heads-up, Fred. Here's a link to the relevant page on
> > the OED site:
> >
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 4, 2023 at 7:32 PM Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
> wrote:
> >
> > > I see that another ADS-L community member who is mentioned is
> > > Michael Quinion.
> > >
> > > ________________________________
> > > From: Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
> > > Sent: Monday, September 4, 2023 7:28 PM
> > > To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> > > Subject: Members of the ADS-L Community and the OED
> > >
> > > While looking at the online material about the OED in its new
> > > website,
> I
> > > notice that four present or past members of the ADS-L community
> > > are mentioned as significant contributors: Bill Mullins, Barry
> > > Popik, Ben Zimmer, and myself.
> > >
> >
> >
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