Allan A. Metcalf
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Allan Metcalf is Professor of English at MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Illinois. He earned a B.A. from Cornell University and M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Metcalf is the former executive secretary of the American Dialect Society, a national scholarly association for the study of American English, past and present and a forensic linguist.
America in so many words : | An Index by region, usage, and etymology to the Dictionary of American regional English, volumes I and II. | Essentials of writing to the point / | From skedaddle to selfie : | How we talk : | Language in Education: Theory and Practice Chicano English | OK : | Predicting new words : | Presidential voices : | Research to the point / | The life of guy : | The world in so many words : | Writing to the point /