Laurence Urdang (1927–2008)
Auteur de The New York Times Dictionary of Misunderstood, Misused, & Mispronounced Words
A propos de l'auteur
Laurence Urdang is a professional lexicographer. Lexicographer Laurence Urdang was born in Manhattan on March 21, 1927. He served in the United States Naval Reserve during World War II. He graduated from Columbia University and did graduate work there in linguistics, but never completed his afficher plus graduate degree. He was a lecturer in linguistics at New York University from 1956 to 1961. He helped create more than 100 dictionaries and reference books including -Ologies and -Isms; The New York Times Everyday Reader's Dictionary of Misunderstood, Misused, and Mispronounced Words; and a dictionary on synonyms and antonyms. In 1969, he started Laurence Urdang Associates, Ltd., which published about 150 books on words and language. In 1974, he found Verbatim, a quarterly newsletter on language. He died from congestive heart failure on August 21. 2008. (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Séries
Œuvres de Laurence Urdang
The New York Times Dictionary of Misunderstood, Misused, & Mispronounced Words (1968) 392 exemplaires
Allusions: Cultural, literary, Biblical, and historical : a thematic dictionary (1982) 18 exemplaires
Three Toed Sloths and Seven League Boots: A Dictionary of Numerical Expressions (1986) 17 exemplaires
The Whole Ball of Wax and Other Colloquial Sayings: What They Mean & How They Started (1988) 14 exemplaires
Mottoes: A Compilation of More Than 9,000 Mottoes from Around the World and Throughout History, With Foreign Examples… (1986) 4 exemplaires
Holidays and anniversaries of the world : a comprehensive catalogue containing detailed information on every month and… (1985) 2 exemplaires
The Random House Thesaurus a Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms, More Than 80,000 Words (1988) 2 exemplaires
The Official Associated Press Almanach 1973 (Successor to The New York Times Encyclopedic Almanac) 1 exemplaire
The Oxford Thesaurus-An A-z Dictionary Of Synoms 1 exemplaire
Newnes Italian Dictionary 1 exemplaire
The American Century Dictionary 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Collins dictionary of the English language (1979) — Editorial Director, quelques éditions — 566 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Autres noms
- Claurene DuGran
- Date de naissance
- 1927-03-27
- Date de décès
- 2008-08-21
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Manhattan, New York, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Branford, Connecticut, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Old Lyme, Connecticut, USA
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, England, UK - Professions
- lexicographer
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 73
- Aussi par
- 5
- Membres
- 2,194
- Popularité
- #11,694
- Évaluation
- 4.2
- Critiques
- 7
- ISBN
- 120