Allan Metcalf English Department
1188 West College Avenue MacMurray College
Jacksonville, Illinois 62650 Jacksonville, Illinois 62650
217-370-5745
[email protected] [email protected]
EDUCATION University of California, Berkeley: M.A. in English, 1964; Ph.D., 1966.
• Dissertation: “The Poetic Language of the Old English Meters of Boethius.”
Freie Universität, West Berlin, Germany: student in Anglistik, 1961-1962.
• Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst “Dankstipendium” fellowship.
Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.: B.A. with high honors in English, 1961.
• Editor in chief, The Cornell Daily Sun, 1960-61.
• Phi Beta Kappa,1961.
BLOG
Weekly post to Lingua Franca blog of the Chronicle of Higher Education, August 2012 to present.
http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/author/ametcalf/
CBS SUNDAY MORNING
Interviewed by Mo Rocca about OK. Broadcast March 16, 2014:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/time-for-a-little-word-history-ok/
PUBLICATIONS—AMERICAN ENGLISH AND LINGUISTICS
(see also my Books page)
From Skedaddle to Selfie: Words of the Generations. (Distinctive vocabulary of each generation in American history.) Oxford University Press, 2016. ix + 2009 pages.
OK: The Improbable Story of America’s Greatest Word. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, November 2010. Xii + 210 pages. (Many reviews, including Newsweek 10.28.10, Washington Post 10.29.10, New York Times Book Review 11.21.10 by Roy Blount, Jr.) Paperback with additional chapter, 2011. Chinese translation, China Times Publishing Co. 2012.
[commentary in] Word Fugitives: In Pursuit of Wanted Words by Barbara Wallraff. New York: Collins, 2006. Pages 182-185.
Presidential Voices: Speaking Styles from George Washington to George W. Bush. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. xv + 334 pages.
Predicting New Words: The Secrets of Their Success. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. xvi + 207 pages.
How We Talk: American Regional English Today. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. xvi + 207 pages.
The World in So Many Words. [The story of one word from each of the hundreds of languages that have given words to English.] Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. xiv + 300 pages.
America in So Many Words: Words That Have Shaped America. With David K. Barnhart. [The story of a word or phrase for each year in American history.] Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. xii + 308 pages.
Newsletter of the American Dialect Society. Editor, Vol. 8 (1976)-Vol.35 (2003). Three issues annually, 12 or more pages each.
“Fixin’ to Learn Localisms? Here’s a Non-Spendy Way.” Chronicle of Higher Education 47.38 (1 June 2001): B5.
“Data Mining.” American Speech 75.3 (Fall 2000): 237-239.
Review of American English: Dialects and Variation by Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes. Language in Society 29.2 (2000): 294-296.
“The South in DARE [Dictionary of American Regional English].” In Language Variety in the South Revisited, ed. Cynthia Bernstein et al. (Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press, 1997), 266-276.
“Typography” [of the Century Dictionary]. Dictionaries 17 (1996): 17-28.
An Index by Region, Usage, and Etymology to the Dictionary of American Regional English, Volumes I and II. Co-editor with Luanne von Schneidemesser. Publication of the American Dialect Society 77 (1993). xxiii + 178 pp.
“Where Is Dialectology Going?” Quaderni di Semantica 12.2 (December 1991): 292-297 and 13.1 (June 1992): 121-124. (Part of roundtable discussion.)
“Double or Nothing: An End to Final Prepositions.” Note in American Speech 62.2 (Summer 1987): 182-183.
“Finding Words in Online Databases.” In Papers from the Fifth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, ed. H.J. Warkentyne (Victoria, B.C.: Dept. of Linguistics, University of Victoria, 1985), 317-326.
“A Reason for Reagan.” (Pronunciations of his name.) Names 33.4 (Dec. 1985): 259-267. (Also guest editor of the entire issue, with the theme “Names in Dialect.”)
“Newspaper Stylebooks: Strictures Teach Tolerance.” In The English Language Today, ed. Sidney Greenbaum (Oxford: Pergamon, 1985), 106-115.
“The Pacific Coast: End of the Line.” In Dialectology, Linguistics, Literature: Festschrift for Carroll E. Reed, ed. Wolfgang W. Moelleken, Göppinger Arbeiten zur Germanistik 367 (Göppingen: Kummerle Verlag, 1984), 150-167.
“A Brief Annotated Bibliography on Chicano English.” In Form and Function in Chicano English, ed. Jacob Ornstein-Galicia (Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House, 1984), 231-247.
“Birth of a Word.” (Note on psychobabble.) American Speech 56 (Fall 1981): 206.
“Pizza as Pie in Albuquerque.” Note in American Speech 56 (Summer 1981): 149-150.
Chicano English. Language in Education: Theory and Practice, 21. Arlington, Va.: Center for Applied Linguistics, 1979. 32 pp.
A Guide to the California-Nevada Field Records of the Linguistic Atlas of the Pacific Coast. To accompany microfilm publication of the Field Records. In collaboration with David W. Reed, director, Linguistic Atlas of the Pacific Coast. Berkeley: Bancroft Library, University of California, 1979. 162-page typescript to be reproduced on demand.
“The Study of California Chicano English.” International Journal of the Sociology of Language, No. 2 (Spring 1974): 53-58.
“The Study (or, Non-Study) of California Chicano English.” In Southwest Areal Linguistics, ed. Garland D. Bills (San Diego: Institute for Cultural Pluralism, San Diego State University, 1974), 97-106.
“Mexican-American English in Southern California.” Western Review (Silver City, N.M.) 9 (Spring 1972): 13-21.
“Directions of Change in Southern California English.” Journal of English Linguistics 6 (March 1972): 28-34.
Riverside English: The Spoken Language of a Southern California Community. Riverside: Univ. of California, 1971. iv + 40 pp.
PUBLICATIONS—MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE
“Gawain’s Number.” In Essays in the Numerical Analysis of Medieval Literature, ed. Caroline D. Eckhardt (Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 1980), 141-155.
“Supplement to a Bibliography of Purity (Cleanness), 1864-1972.” Chaucer Review 10 (Spring 1976): 367-372.
“Silent Knight: ‘Sum for Cortaysye’?” Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 213 (1976): 338-42. Refers to l. 247 of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Poetic Diction in the Old English Meters of Boethius. De Proprietatibus Litterarum, Series Practica, 50. The Hague: Mouton, 1973. x + 166 pp.
“Sir Gawain and you.” Chaucer Review 5.3 (Winter 1971): 165-178. Additional note in 6.2 (Fall 1971): 157.
“Ornamentale Tiermotive in der altenglischen Versdichtung.” In Das Tier in der Dichtung, ed. Ute Schwab (Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1970), 74-90, 268-71. In German.
“Dante and E.E. Cummings.” Comparative Literature Studies 7 (Sept. 1970): 374-86.
“ ‘West’ in Maldon.” Papers on Language and Literature 6 (Summer 1970): 314-316.
“On the Authorship and Originality of the Meters of Boethius.” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 71 (1970): 185-187.
“Ten Natural Animals in Beowulf.” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 64 (1963): 378-379.
PUBLICATIONS—WRITING
Writing to the Point. 6th edition. Roseville, MN: Birch Grove Publishing, 2008. 128 pp.
Research to the Point. [Textbook on the research paper.] 2nd edition. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1995. ix + 214 pp. Also Instructor’s Guide, vii + 55 pp.
Lesson in teaching The New Yorker. In Collective Wisdom: A Sourcebook of Lessons for Writing Teachers, ed. Sondra J. Stang and Robert Wiltenburg (New York: Random House, 1988), Appendix, 356.
INVITED LECTURE
“Presidential Voices.” Eighteenth annual Peter Tamony Memorial Lecture on American Language, University of Missouri, Columbia, April 3, 2003.
TEACHING
MacMurray College: Professor of English, 1981-; Associate Professor, 1973-81.
• Courses: freshman composition and advanced writing, introduction to poetry and short fiction, survey of English literature, medieval literature, Chaucer, survey of American literature, the novel, contemporary poetry, structure and history of English, American dialects, introduction to linguistics, dictionaries, word origins, languages of the world, new words, beginning Latin, news writing and reporting, Ideas in Perspective (core curriculum), law & language.
• United Methodist Board of Higher Education Award for Teaching Excellence, October 2000.
• Instructor at Jacksonville Correctional Center (program administered by MacMurray College), 1989, 1995-2003.
U.S. Information Agency: Academic Specialist, American Studies Seminar for Israeli high school teachers, Jerusalem, August 2-12, 1993.
Texas A&M University: Visiting Professor of English, fall 1987 and summer 1988.
• Courses: introduction to linguistics, structure of English, syntax and semantics.
University of California, Riverside: Assistant Professor of English, 1966-73.
• Courses: composition, survey of English literature, Old English, literary criticism, English metrical systems, history and structure of English, American dialects, introduction to linguistics, research methods and bibliography.
• University of California Extension, Riverside: English grammar.
University of California, Santa Cruz: California Summer Program in Linguistics, 1971-73.
• Courses: California English, current topics in linguistics.
ADMINISTRATION
MacMurray College: Chair, English Department, 1973-83, 1997-2000. Chair, Division of Humanities and Fine Arts, 1996-99, 2012-14. Director, Program in Journalism, 1975-2003. Registrar and Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs, 2003-12.
University of California, Riverside: founding chair, Committee on Linguistics, 1967.
California Summer Program in Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz:
Co-director, 1973 (with Victoria Fromkin). Member, committee in charge, 1971-73.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
American Dialect Society: Executive Secretary, 1981 to present. Editor, Newsletter, 1976-2003. Editor, Publication of the American Dialect Society, 1993-95. Originator of annual vote on Word of the Year, 1990.
Dictionary Society of North America: Member, Nominating Committee, 1991-95, also 1997-2001.
Modern Language Association: Member, Executive Committee, Lexicography Discussion Group, 1990-94; chair, 1993.
The Barnhart Dictionary Companion: Contributing Editor, 1989-2000.
American Council of Learned Societies: Member, Conference of Administrative Officers, 1981-. Recording secretary, 1988-90. Executive Committee member, 2005-07.
Linguistic Atlas of the Pacific Coast (California-Nevada): Editor in chief and custodian of archives, 1985-95.
National Council of Teachers of English: Ex officio member, Commission on the English Language, 1981-95.
MacMurray College:
• Secretary of the faculty, 1975-2014..
• Elected faculty representative to Board of Trustees, 1991-93, 1993-95.
• Chair, Committee on Bylaws and Handbook, 1984-86; member, 1983-89.
• Chair, Faculty Organization Committee, 1999-2003.
• Founder, publisher and advisor, daily student newspaper, 1976-2000.
• President, MacMurray chapter, AAUP, 1979-80.
Member of numerous other standing and ad hoc committees.
Texas A&M University: Organizer of interdepartmental Linguistics Colloquium.
University of California, Riverside:
• Member, executive committee of the College of Letters and Science, 1969-70.
• Chair of the faculty and of the executive committee, Division of Undergraduate Studies, 1970-72.
• Parliamentarian, Riverside Division of the Academic Senate, 1968-70.
• Chair, Academic Senate Committee on Rules and Jurisdiction, 1969-71.
• Chair, Committee on Student Conduct, 1969-71.
• Chair, Campus Environment Committee, 1970-72.
CONSULTING FOR DICTIONARIES
Special Contributor and Consultant on Dialects for the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, fourth edition, 2000.
Consultant to Merriam-Webster on the definition of a word, 1998.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Dialect Society
Linguistic Society of America
International Association of Forensic Linguistics
Modern Language Association of America
Medieval Academy of America
Dictionary Society of North America
American Association of University Professors
1188 West College Avenue MacMurray College
Jacksonville, Illinois 62650 Jacksonville, Illinois 62650
217-370-5745
[email protected] [email protected]
EDUCATION University of California, Berkeley: M.A. in English, 1964; Ph.D., 1966.
• Dissertation: “The Poetic Language of the Old English Meters of Boethius.”
Freie Universität, West Berlin, Germany: student in Anglistik, 1961-1962.
• Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst “Dankstipendium” fellowship.
Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.: B.A. with high honors in English, 1961.
• Editor in chief, The Cornell Daily Sun, 1960-61.
• Phi Beta Kappa,1961.
BLOG
Weekly post to Lingua Franca blog of the Chronicle of Higher Education, August 2012 to present.
http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/author/ametcalf/
CBS SUNDAY MORNING
Interviewed by Mo Rocca about OK. Broadcast March 16, 2014:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/time-for-a-little-word-history-ok/
PUBLICATIONS—AMERICAN ENGLISH AND LINGUISTICS
(see also my Books page)
From Skedaddle to Selfie: Words of the Generations. (Distinctive vocabulary of each generation in American history.) Oxford University Press, 2016. ix + 2009 pages.
OK: The Improbable Story of America’s Greatest Word. New York: Oxford Univ. Press, November 2010. Xii + 210 pages. (Many reviews, including Newsweek 10.28.10, Washington Post 10.29.10, New York Times Book Review 11.21.10 by Roy Blount, Jr.) Paperback with additional chapter, 2011. Chinese translation, China Times Publishing Co. 2012.
[commentary in] Word Fugitives: In Pursuit of Wanted Words by Barbara Wallraff. New York: Collins, 2006. Pages 182-185.
Presidential Voices: Speaking Styles from George Washington to George W. Bush. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2004. xv + 334 pages.
Predicting New Words: The Secrets of Their Success. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002. xvi + 207 pages.
How We Talk: American Regional English Today. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. xvi + 207 pages.
The World in So Many Words. [The story of one word from each of the hundreds of languages that have given words to English.] Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1999. xiv + 300 pages.
America in So Many Words: Words That Have Shaped America. With David K. Barnhart. [The story of a word or phrase for each year in American history.] Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997. xii + 308 pages.
Newsletter of the American Dialect Society. Editor, Vol. 8 (1976)-Vol.35 (2003). Three issues annually, 12 or more pages each.
“Fixin’ to Learn Localisms? Here’s a Non-Spendy Way.” Chronicle of Higher Education 47.38 (1 June 2001): B5.
“Data Mining.” American Speech 75.3 (Fall 2000): 237-239.
Review of American English: Dialects and Variation by Walt Wolfram and Natalie Schilling-Estes. Language in Society 29.2 (2000): 294-296.
“The South in DARE [Dictionary of American Regional English].” In Language Variety in the South Revisited, ed. Cynthia Bernstein et al. (Tuscaloosa: Univ. of Alabama Press, 1997), 266-276.
“Typography” [of the Century Dictionary]. Dictionaries 17 (1996): 17-28.
An Index by Region, Usage, and Etymology to the Dictionary of American Regional English, Volumes I and II. Co-editor with Luanne von Schneidemesser. Publication of the American Dialect Society 77 (1993). xxiii + 178 pp.
“Where Is Dialectology Going?” Quaderni di Semantica 12.2 (December 1991): 292-297 and 13.1 (June 1992): 121-124. (Part of roundtable discussion.)
“Double or Nothing: An End to Final Prepositions.” Note in American Speech 62.2 (Summer 1987): 182-183.
“Finding Words in Online Databases.” In Papers from the Fifth International Conference on Methods in Dialectology, ed. H.J. Warkentyne (Victoria, B.C.: Dept. of Linguistics, University of Victoria, 1985), 317-326.
“A Reason for Reagan.” (Pronunciations of his name.) Names 33.4 (Dec. 1985): 259-267. (Also guest editor of the entire issue, with the theme “Names in Dialect.”)
“Newspaper Stylebooks: Strictures Teach Tolerance.” In The English Language Today, ed. Sidney Greenbaum (Oxford: Pergamon, 1985), 106-115.
“The Pacific Coast: End of the Line.” In Dialectology, Linguistics, Literature: Festschrift for Carroll E. Reed, ed. Wolfgang W. Moelleken, Göppinger Arbeiten zur Germanistik 367 (Göppingen: Kummerle Verlag, 1984), 150-167.
“A Brief Annotated Bibliography on Chicano English.” In Form and Function in Chicano English, ed. Jacob Ornstein-Galicia (Rowley, Mass.: Newbury House, 1984), 231-247.
“Birth of a Word.” (Note on psychobabble.) American Speech 56 (Fall 1981): 206.
“Pizza as Pie in Albuquerque.” Note in American Speech 56 (Summer 1981): 149-150.
Chicano English. Language in Education: Theory and Practice, 21. Arlington, Va.: Center for Applied Linguistics, 1979. 32 pp.
A Guide to the California-Nevada Field Records of the Linguistic Atlas of the Pacific Coast. To accompany microfilm publication of the Field Records. In collaboration with David W. Reed, director, Linguistic Atlas of the Pacific Coast. Berkeley: Bancroft Library, University of California, 1979. 162-page typescript to be reproduced on demand.
“The Study of California Chicano English.” International Journal of the Sociology of Language, No. 2 (Spring 1974): 53-58.
“The Study (or, Non-Study) of California Chicano English.” In Southwest Areal Linguistics, ed. Garland D. Bills (San Diego: Institute for Cultural Pluralism, San Diego State University, 1974), 97-106.
“Mexican-American English in Southern California.” Western Review (Silver City, N.M.) 9 (Spring 1972): 13-21.
“Directions of Change in Southern California English.” Journal of English Linguistics 6 (March 1972): 28-34.
Riverside English: The Spoken Language of a Southern California Community. Riverside: Univ. of California, 1971. iv + 40 pp.
PUBLICATIONS—MEDIEVAL ENGLISH LITERATURE
“Gawain’s Number.” In Essays in the Numerical Analysis of Medieval Literature, ed. Caroline D. Eckhardt (Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell University Press, 1980), 141-155.
“Supplement to a Bibliography of Purity (Cleanness), 1864-1972.” Chaucer Review 10 (Spring 1976): 367-372.
“Silent Knight: ‘Sum for Cortaysye’?” Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 213 (1976): 338-42. Refers to l. 247 of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Poetic Diction in the Old English Meters of Boethius. De Proprietatibus Litterarum, Series Practica, 50. The Hague: Mouton, 1973. x + 166 pp.
“Sir Gawain and you.” Chaucer Review 5.3 (Winter 1971): 165-178. Additional note in 6.2 (Fall 1971): 157.
“Ornamentale Tiermotive in der altenglischen Versdichtung.” In Das Tier in der Dichtung, ed. Ute Schwab (Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1970), 74-90, 268-71. In German.
“Dante and E.E. Cummings.” Comparative Literature Studies 7 (Sept. 1970): 374-86.
“ ‘West’ in Maldon.” Papers on Language and Literature 6 (Summer 1970): 314-316.
“On the Authorship and Originality of the Meters of Boethius.” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 71 (1970): 185-187.
“Ten Natural Animals in Beowulf.” Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 64 (1963): 378-379.
PUBLICATIONS—WRITING
Writing to the Point. 6th edition. Roseville, MN: Birch Grove Publishing, 2008. 128 pp.
Research to the Point. [Textbook on the research paper.] 2nd edition. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1995. ix + 214 pp. Also Instructor’s Guide, vii + 55 pp.
Lesson in teaching The New Yorker. In Collective Wisdom: A Sourcebook of Lessons for Writing Teachers, ed. Sondra J. Stang and Robert Wiltenburg (New York: Random House, 1988), Appendix, 356.
INVITED LECTURE
“Presidential Voices.” Eighteenth annual Peter Tamony Memorial Lecture on American Language, University of Missouri, Columbia, April 3, 2003.
TEACHING
MacMurray College: Professor of English, 1981-; Associate Professor, 1973-81.
• Courses: freshman composition and advanced writing, introduction to poetry and short fiction, survey of English literature, medieval literature, Chaucer, survey of American literature, the novel, contemporary poetry, structure and history of English, American dialects, introduction to linguistics, dictionaries, word origins, languages of the world, new words, beginning Latin, news writing and reporting, Ideas in Perspective (core curriculum), law & language.
• United Methodist Board of Higher Education Award for Teaching Excellence, October 2000.
• Instructor at Jacksonville Correctional Center (program administered by MacMurray College), 1989, 1995-2003.
U.S. Information Agency: Academic Specialist, American Studies Seminar for Israeli high school teachers, Jerusalem, August 2-12, 1993.
Texas A&M University: Visiting Professor of English, fall 1987 and summer 1988.
• Courses: introduction to linguistics, structure of English, syntax and semantics.
University of California, Riverside: Assistant Professor of English, 1966-73.
• Courses: composition, survey of English literature, Old English, literary criticism, English metrical systems, history and structure of English, American dialects, introduction to linguistics, research methods and bibliography.
• University of California Extension, Riverside: English grammar.
University of California, Santa Cruz: California Summer Program in Linguistics, 1971-73.
• Courses: California English, current topics in linguistics.
ADMINISTRATION
MacMurray College: Chair, English Department, 1973-83, 1997-2000. Chair, Division of Humanities and Fine Arts, 1996-99, 2012-14. Director, Program in Journalism, 1975-2003. Registrar and Assistant Vice President for Academic Affairs, 2003-12.
University of California, Riverside: founding chair, Committee on Linguistics, 1967.
California Summer Program in Linguistics, University of California, Santa Cruz:
Co-director, 1973 (with Victoria Fromkin). Member, committee in charge, 1971-73.
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
American Dialect Society: Executive Secretary, 1981 to present. Editor, Newsletter, 1976-2003. Editor, Publication of the American Dialect Society, 1993-95. Originator of annual vote on Word of the Year, 1990.
Dictionary Society of North America: Member, Nominating Committee, 1991-95, also 1997-2001.
Modern Language Association: Member, Executive Committee, Lexicography Discussion Group, 1990-94; chair, 1993.
The Barnhart Dictionary Companion: Contributing Editor, 1989-2000.
American Council of Learned Societies: Member, Conference of Administrative Officers, 1981-. Recording secretary, 1988-90. Executive Committee member, 2005-07.
Linguistic Atlas of the Pacific Coast (California-Nevada): Editor in chief and custodian of archives, 1985-95.
National Council of Teachers of English: Ex officio member, Commission on the English Language, 1981-95.
MacMurray College:
• Secretary of the faculty, 1975-2014..
• Elected faculty representative to Board of Trustees, 1991-93, 1993-95.
• Chair, Committee on Bylaws and Handbook, 1984-86; member, 1983-89.
• Chair, Faculty Organization Committee, 1999-2003.
• Founder, publisher and advisor, daily student newspaper, 1976-2000.
• President, MacMurray chapter, AAUP, 1979-80.
Member of numerous other standing and ad hoc committees.
Texas A&M University: Organizer of interdepartmental Linguistics Colloquium.
University of California, Riverside:
• Member, executive committee of the College of Letters and Science, 1969-70.
• Chair of the faculty and of the executive committee, Division of Undergraduate Studies, 1970-72.
• Parliamentarian, Riverside Division of the Academic Senate, 1968-70.
• Chair, Academic Senate Committee on Rules and Jurisdiction, 1969-71.
• Chair, Committee on Student Conduct, 1969-71.
• Chair, Campus Environment Committee, 1970-72.
CONSULTING FOR DICTIONARIES
Special Contributor and Consultant on Dialects for the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, fourth edition, 2000.
Consultant to Merriam-Webster on the definition of a word, 1998.
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Dialect Society
Linguistic Society of America
International Association of Forensic Linguistics
Modern Language Association of America
Medieval Academy of America
Dictionary Society of North America
American Association of University Professors
