Margaret M Bryant

Biographic Data

ID700099
NAMEMargaret M Bryant
GIVEN NAMESMargaret M
FAMILY NAMEBryant
SIGNATUREBRYANT M M
AFFILIATIONSBrooklyn College
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS41
TOTAL CITATIONS11
AUTHOR COUNT41
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1931
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1988
H-INDEX2

  • Schools for the Shires: The Reform of Middle-Class Education in Mid-Victorian England

    Margaret M Bryant, Margaret Bryant et al.ARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1988

  • Obituaries

    Margaret M BryantARTICLEWORD1979

  • Marcel Proust's Interest in Names

    Open AccessMargaret M BryantARTICLENames1978

    of . one of the supreme imaginative creations of world literature, had a keen interest in names, as may be seen in Cities of the Plain, the fourth of the seven volumes of his life work under the general title of A la recherche du temps perdu. As a child, Proust spent his holidays at Illiers and Auteuil, which together became the Combray of his novel, or at seaside resorts in Normandy with his maternal grandmother

  • Albert Henry Marckwardt (1903–1975)

    Open AccessMargaret M BryantARTICLENames1977

  • New Words from Popular Mechanics

    Margaret M BryantARTICLEAmerican Speech1977

  • After 25 Years of Onomastic Study

    Open AccessMargaret M BryantARTICLENames1976Cited by: 1References: 2

    when the Executive Council of ADS voted to discontinue its research committee on placenames in light of the unusual growth in number of members in ANS and the amount of onomastic research that had been done during the years. The ADS felt that all work in place-names should center in the ANS. The Society had come of age. It was then 21 years old and was actively engaged in projects that were nationally and internationally recognized. If one looks …

  • A Concordance to the Sayings in Franklin's Poor Richard

    Margaret M Bryant, Frances M Barbour et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1975

  • Blends Are Increasing

    Margaret M BryantARTICLEAmerican Speech1974Cited by: 4

    IN THIS ERA of word creation, greater than ever before because of the many new inventions, discoveries, and developments in all fields, we find that blends are on the increase. New situations, new objects, new processes, new experiences of all types demand new words. Before the middle of the nineteenth century this type of word formation was somewhat rare. The usual citations one finds are Edmund Spenser's wrizzled (probably wrinkled + frizzled),…

  • Nevada Names

    Margaret M Bryant, Helen S CarlsonARTICLEAmerican Speech1974

  • Some Indian and Dutch Names Reflecting the Early History of Brooklyn

    Open AccessMargaret M BryantARTICLENames1972

  • Names and Terms Used in the Fashion World

    Margaret M BryantARTICLEAmerican Speech1970

    The many types of textiles alone available on the market overwhelm the modern-day shopper. Names like Dacron, Orlon, Lastex, Spandex, and Dynel, virtually unknown ten or fifteen years ago, are heard constantly today as a result of an enormous amount of research and development on the part of many chemical companies that are vying with one another to develop fabrics with qualities better than cotton and wool. This experimentation has put today's s…

  • Space Exploration Terms

    Margaret M BryantARTICLEAmerican Speech1968Cited by: 1

    O UR SOURCES OF NEW WORDS are as varied as the people who inhabit our planet. A major wellspring for the growth of the English language is the realm of science-particularly space science. Like every new endeavor in man's history, space exploration has brought with it a new vocabulary which is being used by specialists and amateurs alike. The science fiction of the past has become the science history of today. Terms have been formed in various way…

  • A Selected List of Compounds from Present-Day Reading

    Margaret M BryantARTICLEPublication of the American…1967

    Research Article| November 01 1967 A Selected List of Compounds from Present-Day Reading Margaret M. Bryant Margaret M. Bryant Brooklyn College of the City University of New York Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Publication of the American Dialect Society (1967) 48 (1): 1–32. https://doi.org/10.1215/-48-1-1 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Margaret M. Bryant; A Selected List of Com…

  • The Spell of Words

    Open AccessMargaret M Bryant, John Levitt et al.ARTICLEWestern Folklore1965

  • Names in Gardening

    Margaret M BryantARTICLEPublication of the American…1964

  • The Language of the Law

    Margaret M Bryant, David MellinkoffARTICLEAmerican Speech1964

  • Baby Terms

    Open AccessMargaret M Bryant, John D WilliamsARTICLENames1963

  • Current American Usage

    Audrey R Duckert, Margaret M BryantARTICLEAmerican Speech1963Cited by: 1

  • The Anatomy of Dirty Words

    Open AccessMargaret M Bryant, Edward SagarinARTICLEWestern Folklore1963

  • Smaller Slang Dictionary

    Margaret M Bryant, Eric PartridgeARTICLEWestern Folklore1963

  • Webster's third new international dictionary a symposium

    Harold B Allen, Margaret M Bryant et al.ARTICLEQuarterly Journal of Speech1962

    WEBSTER'S THIRD NEW INTERNATIONAL DICTIONARY, UNABRIDGED. Philip B. Gove, Editor in Chief. Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam Co., 1961; pps. 2720. Editions from $47.50 to $59.50

  • A Collection of Papers by Professor Frank Behre

    Frank Behre, Margaret M Bryant et al.ARTICLEAmerican Speech1962

  • The Japanese Look at English

    Margaret M Bryant, Kazuo Araki et al.ARTICLEAmerican Speech1959

  • Names in Everyday Speach

    Open AccessMargaret M BryantARTICLENames1957

    NAMES OF PEOPLE AND PLACES have found their way into our everyday language.Some became so popular that they are no longer capitalized, as in the case of china, referring to a ceramic ware originally produced in China; of one of the most common words in this industrial age, sandwich, named for no less a personage than John Montagu, the Fourth Earl of Sandwich, who enj oyed this type of snack in the eighteenth century; of the names of measuring uni…

  • The Pattern of English

    Margaret M BryantARTICLEAmerican Speech1957