Henry Bosley Woolf

Biographic Data

ID3842306
NAMEHenry Bosley Woolf
GIVEN NAMESHenry Bosley
FAMILY NAMEWoolf
SIGNATUREWOOLF H B
AFFILIATIONSSpringfield College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS18
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT18
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1938
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1984
H-INDEX0

  • The Meaning of Octoon

    Henry Bosley WoolfARTICLEAmerican Speech1984

  • The Past Participle of Stride

    Henry Bosley WoolfARTICLEAmerican Speech1980

    IN HIS EXEMPLARY OBITUARY Albert Henry (Language 52 [1976]: 667-81), Archibald A. Hill recalls his close association with Marckwardt when the two of them were young men at the University of Michigan fifty years ago and remarks, remember.., .his amusedly asking me about the past participle of stride: 'Is it stridden?' Hill then goes on to say, have been listening ever since for an example of this curiously non-existent (p. 668). Since reading thes…

  • Mencken as Etymologist

    Henry Bosley WoolfARTICLEAmerican Speech1973

    single reference to word charley horse, and a glance at page 191 reveals that this compound is included in a list of baseball terms which are said to have become a part of the common speech of country and to merit investigation.' The following footnote on page 735 of Supplement II indicates that Mencken himself had done some investigating of charley horse during dozen years that separated fourth edition and its 1948 supplement

  • Mencken revisited

    Henry Bosley WoolfARTICLEEnglish Studies1966

  • Etymological Notes on English Place-Names

    Henry Bosley Woolf, Eilert EkwallARTICLELanguage1960

  • Middle English Dictionary.

    Henry Bosley WoolfREVIEWModern Language Notes1957

  • English Place-Name Elements

    Henry Bosley Woolf, A H SmithARTICLELanguage1957

  • Poetry and Prose of the Anglo-Saxons

    Henry Bosley Woolf, Martin LehnertARTICLELanguage1956

  • The Old English "Exodus."

    Henry Bosley Woolf, E Irving et al.ARTICLEModern Language Notes1954

  • Trod Water

    Henry Bosley WoolfARTICLEAmerican Speech1953

  • Philologica

    Robert J Menner, Thomàs A Kirby et al.ARTICLELanguage1951

  • The American language

    Henry Bosley WoolfARTICLEEnglish Studies1949References: 2

    Supplement II: The American Language, an Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States. By H. L. Mencken. Pp. xiii, 890, xliii. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1948. $7.50

  • Culture in Early Anglo-Saxon England, a Study with Illustrations . D. Elizabeth Martin-Clarke

    Henry Bosley WoolfARTICLESpeculum1948

  • On the Characterization of Beowulf

    Henry Bosley WoolfARTICLEELH1948

  • The DAE and Topographic Terms

    Henry Bosley WoolfARTICLEAmerican Speech1942

    N A RECENT volume entitled Topographic Terms in Virginia,' George Davis McJimsey has made a comprehensive study of a limited and hitherto neglected portion of the American vocabulary. Although this book is not correct in every detail,2 it is, nevertheless, an important contribution to American lexicography, and as such it inevitably invites comparison in various ways with the Dictionary of American English, now well over halfway through the alpha…

  • Topographic Terms in Virginia

    Henry Bosley Woolf, George Davis McjimseyARTICLELanguage1941

  • The English Hundred-Names

    Henry Bosley Woolf, O S AndersonARTICLELanguage1941

  • The Pre-Conquest Personal Names of Domesday Book.

    Henry Bosley Woolf, Olof Von FeilitzenARTICLEModern Language Notes1938