He loves language as a source of word-games and translinguistic puns.
Allen Walker Read, a playful prospector of the American tongue who hunted down the source of words like Dixie and Podunk, phrases like the almighty dollar and, most famous of all, those ubiquitous initials, O.K., died on Wednesday at his home in Manhattan.
B3 WEEKEND E1-30; E31-44 SPORTS D1-7 OB9TUAllen Walkeren WalkeReadAd A playful prospector of the American tongue who hunted down the source of words like Dixie and Podunk, phrases like the almighty dollar and, most famous of all, those ubiquitous initials, O.K., he was 96.
"His rich use of language has resulted in being acknowledged as the source of words and phrases such as 'moochin', a difficult or disagreeable person.
One possible explanation for this is that larger eukaryotic proteomes are richer in gene families, adding an extra source of words to the general trend implied by Heaps' Law, and supported by the observation that about 40% of B. rerio proteins are >40% identical.
We can be confident that each of these three manipulations affects only one of the three sources of word information in the text.
However, despite the growing interest in the Chinese language, there are only a few sources of word frequency measures available to researchers, and the quality is less than what researchers in other languages are used to.
Huracan is also the source of the word orcan, another word for a particularly strong European windstorm.
