October 2009
Richard W. Bailey
1609 Cambridge Road
Ann Arbor, Michigan 48104
Voice: 734-663-6901
e-mail: rwbailey@umich.edu
Appointments at The University of Michigan:
Assistant Professor of English: 1965 to 1971
Associate Professor of English: 1971 to 1976
Professor of English: 1976- 2007
Fred Newton Scott Collegiate Professor of English: 2002-2007
Professor Emeritus, 2007-
Recognition and Honors:
Rackham Faculty Fellowships (1967, 1975)
ACLS Grant for Computer-Oriented Research in the Humanities (1968)
Research Fellowship, Office of Research Administration, The University of Michigan (1970)
ACLS Grant-in-Aid (1971)
Fellowship, Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, The University of Edinburgh (1971)
Project Director, The Early Modern English Dictionary Project, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities: 1971-72 ($60,000), 1973 March 1975 ($159,603), April-December 1975 ($69,000)
Co-Project Director, International Conference on the Semiotics of Art, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1978 ($29,000)
Co-Project Director, Program to Improve Student Writing, the Ford Foundation, 1978-80 ($99,000).
Project Director, Colloquium on English Lexicography, supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, 1985 ($9,789).
Distinguished Faculty Achievement Award, U-M, 1989.
Fellowship for University Teachers, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1991-1992 ($30,000).
Regents' Award for Distinguished Public Service, 1992.
Michigan Humanities Fellowship, 1997.
U-M Press Book Award, 1993, 1998.
D’Arms Award for Graduate Mentoring, 2001
Appointed as an Honorary Faculty Member, Washtenaw Community College, 2002.
Publications
Books:
A London Provisioner’s Chronicle, 1550-1563, by Henry Machyn: Manuscript, Transcription and Modernization. (with Marilyn Miller and Colette Moore). Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press and the Scholarly Publication Office, the University of Michigan Library, 2006. An electronic edition: http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/machyn/
Rogue Scholar: The Sinister Life and Celebrated Death of Edward H. Rulloff. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 2003.
Editor, Milestones in the History of English in America: Papers by Allen Walker Read. Duke University Press, 2002.
Nineteenth-Century English. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1996.
Associate Editor, The Oxford Companion to the English Language. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Images of English: A Cultural History of the Language. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1991. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Editor, Dictionaries of English: Prospects for the Record of Our Language. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1987.
Editor, Literacy for Life: The Demand for Reading and Writing (with Robin Melanie Fosheim). New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1983.
Editor, English as a World Language (with Manfred Görlach). Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1982. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983
Editor, Computing in the Humanities. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1982.
Editor, Tagmemics, Discourse, and Verbal Art by Kenneth L. Pike. Ann Arbor: Michigan Studies in the Humanities, 1981.
Editor, The Sign: Semiotics around the World (with Ladislav Matejka and Peter Steiner). Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications, 1978.
Early Modern English: Additions and Antedatings to the Record of English Vocabulary, 1475-1700. Hildesheim: Georg Olms, 1978.
Editor, The Flounders: Fifty Years by Clark Hopkins (1895-1976). Ann Arbor: privately printed, 1976. .
Michigan Early Modern English Materials (with J. W. Downer, J. L. Robinson, and Patricia V. Lehman). Ann Arbor: Xerox University Microfilms and the University of Michigan Press, 1975. http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/memem/ (1994).
Editor, Varieties of Present-Day English (with J. L. Robinson). New York: The Macmillan Company, 1973.
Computer Poems. Drummond Island, Michigan: Potagannissing
Press, 1973,.
Editor, The Computer and Literary Studies (with A. J. Aitken and N. Hamilton-Smith). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1973.
Editor, Statistics and Style (with L. Dolezel). New York: American Elsevier, 1969.
An Annotated Bibliography of Statistical Stylistics (with L. Dolezel). Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Contributions, 1968.
English Stylistics: A Bibliography (with D. M. Burton). Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1968.
Dissertation:
The Public and Private Styles of the Earl of Chesterfield (1965). Dissertation Abstracts 28 (1967): 209A
Articles:
“National and Regional Dictionaries of English.” In The Oxford History of English Lexicography, ed. A. P. Cowie, 1:278-309. 2009. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
“British English since 1830.” In A Companion to the History of the English Language, eds. Haruko Momma and Michael Matto, 235-42. 2008. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
Biographical profiles of Hans Kurath and Allen Walker Read. In Lexicon Grammaticorum: Who’s Who in the History of World Linguistics, ed. Harro Stammerjohann. 2nd ed. 2009?. Tübingen: Niemeyer.
Amicus brief: InThe Supreme Court of the United States: District of Columbia, et al., Petitioners, v. Dick Anthony Heller, Respondent. (Collaboration with Dennis Baron and Jeffrey P. Kaplan). 2008. (Professors of Linguistics). http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/?s=heller
“Hunting down a Rogue,” New York Archives 7 (2008): 28-31.
“Henry Machyn’s English: Getting It Right” (with Colette Moore), in Studies in the History of the English Language III, eds. Christopher M. Cain and Geoffrey Russom, 231-50. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2007.
“In the Profession: Real People and Real English.” Journal of English Linguistics 35 (2007): 107-110
“English among the Languages,” in The Oxford History of English, ed. Lynda Mugglestone, 334-59. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006,
“Standardizing the Heartland,” in Language Variation and Change in the American Midland, eds. Thomas E. Murray and Beth Lee Simon, 165-77. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2006.
“Beginning the Drummond Island Library,” Drummond Island Digest 16.10 (October 2005): 25-26.
“Memoirs of the Dictionary Society of North America,” Dictionaries 25 (2004): 160-63.
“Phat Slang,” LSA Magazine (College of Literature, Science, and the Arts, U-M) (Spring 2005): 36.
“Making All Things New,” Trustee Quarterly (Association of Community College Trustees), (Summer 2004), 22-23.
“American English: Its Origins and History,” in Language in the USA Themes for the Twenty-first Century, eds. Edward Finegan and John R. Rickford, 3017, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.
“One Death Too Many,” The Record (Episcopal Diocese of Michigan), 15.5 (May 2004): 10.
“The Need for Good Texts: The Case of Henry Machyn, 1550-1563,” in Studies in the History of the English Language II: Unfolding Conversations, ed. Anne Curzan and Kimberly Emmons, 217-28. Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2004.
“Ideologies, Attitudes, and Perceptions,” in Needed Research in American Dialects, ed. Dennis Preston, 123-50. Publication of the American Dialect Society, 88. Durham: Duke University Press, 2003
“The Foundation of English in the Louisiana Purchase: New Orleans, 1800-1850,” American Speech 78(2003): 363-84.
.“A Life in Lexicography: Allen Walker Read,” Dictionaries 24 (2003): 179-86.
“Globalization and Poetry,” Newsletter of the Department of English, The University of Michigan (May 2003), 2.
“The Ideology of English in the Long Eighteenth Century,” in Insights into Late Modern English, eds. Marina Dossena and Charles Jones, 21.44. Bern: Peter Lang, 2002.
“Teaching Sound Change,” Journal of English Linguistics 30 (2002): 310-17.
“A Thousand Years of the History of English,” in Studies in the History of the English Language: A Millenial Perspective, ed. Donka Minkova and Robe rt Stockwell, 449-71 (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2002).
“Foreword” to Still More Englishes by Manfred Görlach (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2002), xi-xii.
“English in a Multilingual World,” The English Academy Review (South Africa) 17 (2000 [2002]): 12-24.
“The Last Straw,” English Today 17 (2001):62.
“American English Abroad,” in The Cambridge History of the English Language: English in North America, ed. John Algeo, 456-96 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001).
“Language at the Edges,” American Speech 75 (2000): 385-86.
“Sri Lanka in the English Language” and “The Revenge of the Clerks,” in Fact and Fable Aspects of East-West Interaction, ed. Rajiva Wijesinha (Subaragamuwa, Sri Lanka: Subaragamuwa University Press, 2000), 70-93.
“’This Unique and Peerless Specimen’: The Reputation of the OED,” in Lexicography and the OED, ed. Lynda Mugglestone (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 207-27.
“The OED and the Public,” Lexicography and the OED, 253-84.
“The Past Has Become Another Country,” in ‘Gladly Wolde She Lerne and Gladly Teche’: Felicitation Volume for Professor Yasmine Gooneratne AO, D.Litt, ed. Devika Brendon (London: Argus Publications, 1999), 10-16.
“Majority Language, Minority Misery: The Case of Sri Lanka,” in Language Legislation and Linguistic Rights, ed. Douglas A. Kibbee (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1998), 206-24.
“The Diary of Henry Machyn: An Electronic Text” (with Anne Curzan), in Tracing the Trail of Time: Proceedings from the Second Diachronic Corpora Workshop (1995), ed. Raymond Hickey et al., 25-31. (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997).
“The English Language in Japan,” in Englishes Around the World: Studies in Honour of Manfred Görlach, ed. Edgar W. Schneider (Amsterdam and Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1997), 2.177-87.
“Philological Eccentrics,” Newsletter of the American Dialect Society 29.1 (1997): 5-10.
“Centennial Celebration of The Century Dictionary: Origins,” Dictionaries 17 (1996): 1-16.
“Hans Kurath,” in Lexicon Grammaticorum, ed. Harro Stammerjohann (Tübingen: Max Niemeyer, 1996), 539.
“Celebrating Slang,” Dictionaries 17 (1996): 265-67.
“Attitudes toward English: The Future of English in South Asia,” in South Asian English: Structure, Use, and Users, ed. Robert J. Baumgardner (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1996), 40-52
“Allen Walker Read: American Scholar," Notes on Etymology 24.5 (February 1995): 1-10. Reprinted in Forum Anglicum 22 (1997): 169-79.
“Old Dictionaries, New Knowledge,” in Early Dictionary Databases, ed. Ian Lancashire and T. Rosson Woodridge (Toronto: Center for Computing in the Humanities, 1994), 17-30. Reprinted in Informatique et dictionnaires anciens (Paris: Didier Érudition, 1995), 17-30.
“Charles Carpenter Fries (1887-1967), in The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, ed. R. E. Asher and J. M. Y. Simpson (Oxford: Pergamon Press, Oxford), vol. 3, pp. 1307-08.
"Whose Usage? Fred Newton Scott and the Standard of Speech," in Centennial Usage Studies, ed. Greta D. Little and Michael Montgomery (Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1994), 1-9.
"Studying the English of Rituals," in Language Variation in North American English: Research and Teaching, ed. A. Wayne Glowka and Donald M. Lance (New York: The Modern Language Association, 1993), 77-81.
"Literally," Verbatim 20 (Autumn 1993): 3-4.
"Word Watchers: Fitzedward Hall," Verbatim 20 (Winter 1993): 21-22.
"Dr. Murray Sees a UFO," Dictionaries 13 (1991 [1992]): 178-79.
"Hans Kurath," Language 68 (1992): 797-808
"Scots and Scotticisms: Language and Ideology," Studies in Scottish Literature 26 (1991 [1992]): 65-77.
"The First North American Dialect Survey," in Old English and New: Studies in Language and Linguistics in Honor of Frederic G. Cassidy, ed. Joan H. Hall, Nick Doane, and Dick Ringler (New York: Garland, 1992), 305-26.
"Dialects of Canadian English," English Today 27 (1991): 20-25.
"The Period Dictionary: English," in Wörterbücher /Dictionaries/Dictionnaires, ed. Franz Josef Hausmann et al. (Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1990), 2: 1436-57.
"The Politics of the English Language: Issues to Consider in the Chinese Context," in ELT in China: Papers Presented at the International Symposium on Teaching English in the Chinese Context (ISTEC), Guangzhou, China, 1985, (Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press [1990]), 11-28.
"English at Its Twilight," in The State of the Language, ed. Christopher Ricks and Leonard Michaels (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), 83-94.
"Evolution and Change in Graduate Education: The Doctor of Arts in English at the University of Michigan," in The Doctor of Arts Degree: Re-Assessing Teaching and Research Priorities, ed. Anne Paolucci (Whitestone, NY:
Council on National Literatures, 1989), 57-75.
"Writing into a Community" (with Barbara Couture), in Disciplinary Perspectives on Thinking and Writing, ed. Barbra S. Morris (Ann Arbor: English Composition Board, 1989), 80-100.
"The Hegemony of Information," in Language Topics: Essays in Honour of Michael Halliday, ed. Ross Steele and Terry Threadgold (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1987), 2,: 385-400.
"Yes, But WHICH Dictionary?: North America," English Today 10 (1987): 14-17.
"Teaching in the Vernacular: Scotland, Schools, and Linguistic Diversity," in The Nuttis Schell: Essays on the Scots Language, ed. Caroline Macafee and Iseabail Macleod (Aberdeen: Aberdeen University Press, 1987), 131-42.
"On Some Discontiguities in Our English Dictionaries," in Dictionaries of English: Prospects for the Record of Our Language, ed. Richard W. Bailey (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1987), 136-61.
"Preface," in Functional Approaches to Writing: Research Perspectives, ed. Barbara Couture (London: Frances Pinter, 1986), ix-xi.
"Dictionaries of the Next Century," in Lexicography as an Emerging International Profession, ed. Robert Ilson (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1986), 123-137.
"Charles C. Fries: The Life of a Linguist," in Toward an Understanding of Language: Charles C. Fries in Perspective, ed. Peter Howard Fries and Nancy M. Fries (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1985), 1- 15.
"Charles C. Fries and the Early Modern English Dictionary," in Toward an Understanding of Language: Charles C. Fries in Perspective, ed. Peter Howard Fries and Nancy M. Fries (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1985), 171-204.
"Negotiation and Meaning: Revisiting the Context of Situation," in Systemic Perspectives on Discourse, ed. William R. Greaves and James D. Benson (Norwood, N. J.: Ablex, 1985), 2: 1-17.
"The Idea of World English," English Today 1 (1985): 3-6.
"The Conquests of English," in The English Language Today, ed. Sidney Greenbaum (Oxford: Pergamon Institute of English, 1985), 9-19.
"Donald Belshaw Sands" [obituary notice]. Newsletter of the American Dialect Society 16.3 (September 1984): 23-24.
"If the Truth Be Told," in Test Your Word Power, ed. Jerome Agel (New York: Ballantine Books, 1984), 78-79.
"Angus Fraser Cameron" [obituary notice]. ALLC Bulletin [Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing] 12 (1984): 61.
"George Orwell and the English Language," in The Future of Nineteen Eighty-Four, ed. Ejner J. Jensen (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1984), 23-46.
"Literacy in English: An International Perspective," in Literacy for Life: The Demand for Reading and Writing, ed. Richard W. Bailey and Robin Melanie Fosheim (New York: The Modern Language Association of America, 1983), 30-44.
"Having Your Words Cut Out for You: An Introduction to Idioms and Phrases," in Idioms and Phrases Index, ed. Laurence Urdang and Frank R. Abate (Detroit: Gale Research, 1983), l: vii-x.
"Writing Across the Curriculum: The British Approach," in fforum: Essays on Theory and Practice in the Teaching of Writing, ed. Patricia L. Stock (Upper Montclair, N. J.: Boynton-Cook, 1983), 24-32.
"Computing in the Humanities," in Computing in the Humanities, ed. Richard W. Bailey (Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1982), 1-6.
"The State of Things" [On multilingualism in the United States], Michigan Academician, 14 (1982): 333-35; reprinted as "Our National Language(s)," CLAC: Conference on Language Attitudes and Composition, no. 9 (1983): 15-16.
"The English Language in Canada," in English as a World Language, ed. Richard W. Bailey and Manfred Görlach (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1982), 134-76.
"Literacy: The Present and the Future," LSA Journal (The University of Michigan), 5.2 (1982): 10-13.
"Robert Laverne Parslow" [obituary notice]. Newsletter of the American Dialect Society 14.1 (1982): 7.
"Tagmemics and the Universe of Discourse," in Tagmemics, Discourse, and Verbal Art, by Kenneth L. Pike (Ann Arbor: Michigan Studies in the Humanities, 1981), vii-xvi.
"Litigation and Literacy: The Black English Case," fforum: Newsletter of the English Composition Board 3.1 (Fall 1981): 29-30; reprinted in fforum: Essays on Theory and Practice in the Teaching of Writing, ed. Patricia
L. Stock (Upper Montclair, N. J.: Boynton-Cook, 1983), 128-32.
"Haliburton's Eye and Ear," Canadian Journal of Linguistics, 26 (1981): 90-101.
"Press Coverage of the King Case," in English and the Education of Black Children and Youth, ed. Geneva Smitherman (Detroit: Wayne State University, 1981), 359-89.
"Education and the Law: The King Case in Ann Arbor," in English and the Education of Black Children and Youth, ed. Geneva Smitherman (Detroit: Wayne State University, 1981), 94-129; reprinted in Black English: Educational Equity and the Law, ed. John W. Chambers, Jr. (Ann Arbor: Karoma Press, 1983), 1-28.
"Writing Across the Curriculum: The British Approach." fforum: Newsletter of the English Composition Board, 2.2 (Winter 1981): 80, 92-93.
"Progress toward a Dictionary of Early Modern English, 1475-1700," in Proceedings of the Second International Round-Table Conference on Historical Lexicography, ed. W. Pijnenburg and F. de Tollenaere (Dordrecht: Foris Publications, 1980), 199-226.
"Our Readers Write: Black English and the Ann Arbor Public Schools." English Journal, 69.6 (1980): 74.
"The Department of English Language and Literature," in The University of Michigan: An Encyclopedic Survey, 1940-1975, ed. Ferol Brinkman (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan, Bentley Historical Library, 1980), vol. 6, pp. 158-52..
"Determining Authorship in Ancient Greek," Proceedings of the International Conference on Literary and Linguistic Computing, ed. Zvi Malachi (Tel-Aviv: The Katz Research Institute, 1980), 279-90.
"Measuring Student Writing Ability" (with Richard T. Brengle and Edward L. Smith Jr.), in Reinventing the Rhetorical Tradition, eds. Aviva Freedman and Ian Pringle (Ottawa: Canadian Council of Teachers of English, 1980), 137-44.
"The Law Lends an Ear to Black English," Newsletter of the American Dialect Society, 12.1 (1980): 15.
"Hawks and Handsaws," Dartmouth Alumni Magazine 72.2 (October 1979): 26.
"The Future of Computational Stylistics," Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing Bulletin 7.1 (1979): 4-11; reprinted in Literary Computing and Literary Criticism, ed. Rosanne G. Potter (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989), 3-12.
"Authorship Attribution in a Forensic Setting," in Advances in Computer-Aided Linguistic Research, eds. D. E. Ager, F. E. Knowles, and J. M. Smith (Birmingham: University of Aston, 1979), 1-20.
"What To Do Till the Doctor Comes: Selecting a College President," Trustee Quarterly 3.1 (1978-79): 1-3.
"William Dwight Whitney and the Origins of Semiotics," in The Sign: Semiotics around the World, eds. R. W. Bailey, L. Matejka, and P. Steiner (Ann Arbor: Michigan Slavic Publications, 1978), 68-79.
"The American What Society?" Newsletter of the American Dialect Society 10.1 (1978): 11.
"Saying It is One Thing: Robbins Burling and the English Department," ADE Bulletin (Association of Departments of English) No. 56 (1978): 23-25.
"The Second Congress on Historical Lexicography," DSNA Newsletter [Dictionary Society of North America] 1.2 (1977): 3.
"Authorship, Patricia Hearst, and the Courts," LSA Journal (The University of Michigan) 1.4 (1977): 8-9.
"Academic Responsibility to the Public," Trustee Quarterly (Association of Community College Trustees) 1.4 (1977): 1-2.
"Maxwell's Demon and the Muse," Dispositio 1 (1976): 293-301.
"Annual Bibliography for 1973," Style 10 (1976): 117-75.
"Literary Semiotics in North America" (with Seymour Chatman), Versus: Quaderni di studi semiotica 8/9 (1974): 227-44.
"Computer-Assisted Lexicography: A Preliminary Bibliography," American Journal of Computational Linguistics 1 (1974): 9-15.
"Annual Bibliography for 1972" (with others), Style 8 (1974): 155-207.
"Computer-Assisted Poetry: The Writing Machine is for Everybody," Computers in the Humanities, ed. J. Lawrence Mitchell (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1974), 283-95.
"MEMEM: A New Approach to Lexicography" (with J. L. Robinson), Source 4 (1974): 2-6.
"Stylistics Today," Foundations of Language 11 (1974): 115-39.
"Research Dictionaries," American Speech 44 (1969 [1973]): 166-72.
"Reflections on Technology in Lexicography," in Lexicography in English, eds. Raven I. McDavid, Jr., and Audrey Duckert (New York: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, vol. 211, 1973), 293-97.
"Write Off versus Write On: Dialects and the Teaching of Composition," in Varieties of Present-Day English, eds. R. W. Bailey and J. L. Robinson (New York: Macmillan, 1973), 384-408.
"The Computer in Lexicography" (with J. L. Robinson), in Lexicography and Linguistic Geography: Festgabe fur Hans Kurath, eds. Harald Scholler and John Reidy (Weisbaden: Franz Steiner Verlag, 1973), 37-45.
"Annual Bibliography for 1971" (with others), Style 7 (1973): 74-118.
"Computer-Produced Microfilm in Lexicography: Toward a Dictionary of Early Modern English" (with J. L. Robinson), in The Computer and Literary Studies, eds. A. J. Aitken, R. W. Bailey, and N. Hamilton-Smith (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1973), 3-14.
"Annual Bibliography for 1970" (with others), Style 6 (1972): 90-121.
"New OED" (with J. W. Downer and J. L. Robinson) [Letter], TLS (November 11, 1972); 1368.
"Toward the Integrity of Stylistics: Symbiosis vs. Parasitism," Current Trends in Stylistics, eds. Braj B. Kachru and Herbert F. W. Stahlke (Edmonton and Champaign: Language Research Foundation, 1972), 97-101.
"Statistics and the Sounds of Poetry," Poetics 1 (1971): 16-37.
"Annual Bibliography for 1969" (with others), Style 4 (1970): 252-94.
"Automating Poetry," Computers and Automation 19.4 (1970): 10-13.
"Computers and Dictionaries" (with J. L. Robinson), in Computers and Old English Concordances, eds. Angus Cameron, Roberta Frank, and John Leyerle (Toronto: The University of Toronto Press, 1970), 94-102.
"Annual Bibliography for 1968" (with others), Style 3 (1969): 261-302.
"Statistics and Style: A Historical Survey," in Statistics and Style, eds. L. Dolezel and R. W. Bailey (New York: American Elsevier, 1969), pp. 217-36.
"T. E. Lawrence: A Man for All Seasons," Michigan Quarterly Review 8 (1969): 208-11.
"The University of Michigan Early Modern English Dictionary Project" (with J. L. Robinson), Shakespeare Research and Opportunities 4 (1968/69): 120-21.
"Annual Bibliography for 1967" (with others), Style 3 (1968): 245-65.
"Language to Literature: A Rejoinder," Style 1 (1967): 221-24.
"Current Trends in the Analysis of Style," Style 1 (1967): 1-14.
Reviews:
Of Nineteenth-Century English: Stability and Change, ed. Merja Kytö, Mats Rydén, and Erik Smitterberg, Functions of Language 15 (2008): 171-79.
Of The Yale Book of Quotations by Fred R Shapiro, American Speech 82 (2007): 438-42.
Of The Atlas of North American English, ed. William Labov, Sharon Ash, and Charles Boberg, American Speech 82 (2007): 292-300.
Of Samuel Johnson’s Unpublished Revisions to the Dictionary of English, ed. Allen Reddick, Dictionaries 26 (2005): 207-10.
Of An Adventure of Great Dimensions: The Launching of the Chicago Asyrian Dictionary, by Erica Reiner, Dictionaries 26 (2005): 211-13.
Of Francis A. March: Selected Writings of the First Professor of English, eds. Paul Schlueter and Jan Schlueter, Journal of English Linguistics 34 (2006): 153-65.
Of Lost for Words: The Hidden History of the Oxford English Dictionary by Lynda Mugglestone, Journal of British Studies 45 (2006): 205-207.
Of Talking Proper: The Rise of Accent as Social Symbol (2nd ed.) by Lynda Mugglestone, Language 81 (2005): 269-71.
Of The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary” by Simon Winchester, Dictionaries 25 (2004): 169-74.
Of The Correspondence of John Stephen Farmer and W. E. Henley on Their Slang Dictionary, 1890-1904 ed by Damian Atkinson, Dictionaries 25 (2004): 175-79.
Of Slayer Slang: A “Buffy the Vampire Slayer” Lexicon by Michael Adams, American Speech 79 (2004):92-97.
Of Variation Past and Present: Studies on English for Terttu Navalainen, ed. Helena Raumolin-Brunberg, et al., Language and Society 31 (2004): 130-33.
Of A Dictionary of European Anglicisms by Manfred Görlach, Dictionaries 24 (2003): 253-59.
Of the Dictionary of American Regional English ed. by Joan Houston Hall, vol. 4, Journal of English Linguistics 31 (2003): 358-62.
Of Writing Machines by N. Katherine Hayles and Anne Burdick, Computing Reviews 43 (April 2003).
Of The Cambridge History of the English Language, 1476-1776, ed. by Roger Lass, Language 78 (2002): 565-69.
Of Language and the Internet by David Crystal, Computing Reviews 42 (April 2002): 125.
Of The Development of Standard English, 1300-1800, ed. by Laura Wright, Language in Society 31 (2002): 456-60.
Of The Warden of English: The Life of H. W. Fowler by Jenny McMorris Verbatim 26.4 (2001): 27-29.
Of The World in So Many Words by Allan Metcalf, Dictionaries 22 (2001): 220-22.
Of The Performing Arts in Colonial American Newspapers, 1690-1783 by Mary Jane Corry et al., American Speech 76 (2001): 100-103.
Of The Making of Middle English, 1765-1910 by David Matthews. Victorian Studies 43.2 (2001): 363-65.
Of The Cambridge History of the English Language, vol. 4. Journal of Linguistics 36 (2000): 612-19.
Of A Cultural History of the English Language by Gerry Knowles. Language in Society 29 (2000): 131-33.
Of Governing the Tongue: The Politics of Speech in Early New England, by Jane Kamensky. American Speech 74 (1999): 429-33.
Of A Dictionary of Modern American Usage by Bryan A. Garner. Dictionaries 20 (1999): 151-55.
Of Language and Society in Early Modern England by Vivian Salmon. Language 74 (1998): 433-34.
Of The Madman and the Professor by Simon Winchester. Verbatim 23.4 (1998): 14-16.
Of English Language Scholarship by Helmut Gneuss. American Speech 72 (1997 [1998]): 433-36.
Of The Cambridge History of the English Language: English in Britain and Overseas, ed. R. W. Burchfield, Journal of English Linguistics 26 (1998): 68-71.
Of The Story of Webster’s Third: Philip Gove’s Controversial Dictionary and Its Critics by Herbert Morton, Language 71 (1995): 604-607.
Of The English Dictionary from Cawdrey to Johnson, 1604-1755 by De Witt T. Starnes and Gertrude E. Noyes, Dictionaries 13 (1991 [1992]): 124-25.
Of The Oxford English Dictionary and the State of the Language, by Robert W. Burchfield and Hans Aarslef, Dictionaries 11 (1989): 266-71.
Of English-Language Dictionaries, 1604-1900, by Robert Keating O'Neill, and of A Collection of Dictionaries and Related Works by H. Rocke Robertson and J. Wesley Robertson, Dictionaries 11 (1989): 283-87.
Of International Journal of Lexicography, ed. Robert Ilson, [London] Times Higher Education Supplement (March 1990).
Of Lexicography Today: An Annotated Bibliography by Ladislav Zgusta, Dictionaries 10 (1988): 145-47.
Of Dispatches from the Front: The Prefaces to the Oxford English Dictionary by Darrell R. Raymond, Dictionaries 10 (1988): 177-83.
Of Dictionary of Prince Edward Island English by T. K. Pratt, Dictionaries 10 (1988): 196-99.
Of When Roots Die: Endangered Traditions on the Sea Islands by Patricia Jones-Jackson, English World-Wide 9 (1988): 343-45.
Of Van Winkle's Return: Change in American English, 1966-1986 by Kenneth G. Wilson, Dictionaries 9 (1987): 222-24.
Of Toward a Social History of American English by Joey L. Dillard, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 7 (1986): 529-31.
Of The Language of the American South by Cleanth Brooks, English World-Wide 7.1 (1986): 159-61.
Of A Study of Lexical Borrowing from Chinese into English with Special Reference to Hong Kong by Mimi Chan and Helen Kwok, English World-Wide 7.1 (1986): 166-69.
Of Modern Englishes: Pidgins and Creoles by Loreto Todd, Verbatim 12.4 (Spring 1986): 19-20.
Of Colonial American English: A Glossary by Richard M. Lederer and of New Words Dictionary by Harold LeMay et al., Dictionaries 7 (1985): 340-43.
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