Atcheson L Hench
Biographic Data
| ID | 701946 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Atcheson L Hench |
| GIVEN NAMES | Atcheson L |
| FAMILY NAME | Hench |
| SIGNATURE | HENCH A L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Virginia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1921 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
C. Grant Loomis's "Word Usage before 1845" Amended
A Note On Lviacaroni, Cornaroni, Or Something-Else-Aroni
The Use by the Dictionary of American English and the Dictionary of Americanisms of Schele De Vere’s Manuscript Notes on Americanisms
Research Article| November 01 1966 The Use by the Dictionary of American English and the Dictionary of Americanisms of Schele De Vere’s Manuscript Notes on Americanisms Atcheson L. Hench Atcheson L. Hench University of Virginia Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Publication of the American Dialect Society (1966) 46 (1): 20–23. https://doi.org/10.1215/-46-1-20 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site …
Sauce
Put the Goat in the Garden
In Search of the Source of "Ballyhoo". An Interim Report
For what these two ballyhoos are, let us go to M. M. Mathews's Dictionary of Americanisms (hereinafter called DA), for it has the earliest citations for both. First, we find a quotation from 1836 (under ballyhoo, i), in which the word is used to refer to a kind of ship. Next, the DA records the word balao (with the variant spellings ballaho and ballyhoo) as the name of a small Caribbean garfish, the halfbeak. The DA's first citation for balao (Sp…
On Variant Pronunciations
Singular, "Kudos" and Plural, "Kudos"; Singular, "Kudo
Mark Twain's German
The Coining of 'Stanine
Arab'. A Baltimore Word
Our Rash of 'Clinics
The American Thesaurus of Slang with Supplement: A Complete Reference Book of Colloquial Speech
John A. Grindle, Real or Fictional Angler
A Possible Clue to the Source of 'Ballyhoo' and Some Queries
5XtHERE did the word ballyhoo in the sense of a barker's spiel, noisy Vv advertising, etc., come from? On page 188 of the fourth edition of his Smerican Language (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1936), Mr. Mencken summarized three explanations: (1) It is connected with the name of Ballyhooly, a village in Cork County, Ireland. This explanation is given by Webster's NID (1934) and by Eric Partridge's A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (Ne…
In a Word
To Come to Fetch Fire
Dictionary of American English, Part III
Corbins and Nicolsons: A Preliminary Note
The Man in the Moon
Some Word Notes
At the South, at the North
Some Lexical Notes
R ADIOCAST, both noun and verb, has appeared in Associated Press dispatches recently. The following is an example of the word as noun: J. B. Priestley, author, is going to Tahiti, via New York, to write his next novel. He said in a radiocast he'd need a small island to recover from the fright he expects to receive on the gigantic island of Manhattan. (A. P. dispatch, dated London, Feb. 10, 1931. Published, for instance, in the Charlottesville, Vi…
To Dunk
From the Vocabulary of Automobile Thieves
Communal Composition of Ballads in the A. E. F
Momentarily
Nominative "Thou" and "Thee" in Quaker English
An American Version of Sam Weller's "Two-Penny Rope" Story
From the Vocabulary of Automobile Thieves
At the South, at the North
Some Lexical Notes
R ADIOCAST, both noun and verb, has appeared in Associated Press dispatches recently. The following is an example of the word as noun: J. B. Priestley, author, is going to Tahiti, via New York, to write his next novel. He said in a radiocast he'd need a small island to recover from the fright he expects to receive on the gigantic island of Manhattan. (A. P. dispatch, dated London, Feb. 10, 1931. Published, for instance, in the Charlottesville, Vi…
To Dunk
Some Word Notes
The Man in the Moon
Dictionary of American English, Part III
Corbins and Nicolsons: A Preliminary Note
To Come to Fetch Fire
In a Word
John A. Grindle, Real or Fictional Angler
A Possible Clue to the Source of 'Ballyhoo' and Some Queries
5XtHERE did the word ballyhoo in the sense of a barker's spiel, noisy Vv advertising, etc., come from? On page 188 of the fourth edition of his Smerican Language (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1936), Mr. Mencken summarized three explanations: (1) It is connected with the name of Ballyhooly, a village in Cork County, Ireland. This explanation is given by Webster's NID (1934) and by Eric Partridge's A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English (Ne…
The American Thesaurus of Slang with Supplement: A Complete Reference Book of Colloquial Speech
Our Rash of 'Clinics
The Coining of 'Stanine
Arab'. A Baltimore Word
Mark Twain's German
Singular, "Kudos" and Plural, "Kudos"; Singular, "Kudo
On Variant Pronunciations
In Search of the Source of "Ballyhoo". An Interim Report
For what these two ballyhoos are, let us go to M. M. Mathews's Dictionary of Americanisms (hereinafter called DA), for it has the earliest citations for both. First, we find a quotation from 1836 (under ballyhoo, i), in which the word is used to refer to a kind of ship. Next, the DA records the word balao (with the variant spellings ballaho and ballyhoo) as the name of a small Caribbean garfish, the halfbeak. The DA's first citation for balao (Sp…
The Use by the Dictionary of American English and the Dictionary of Americanisms of Schele De Vere’s Manuscript Notes on Americanisms
Research Article| November 01 1966 The Use by the Dictionary of American English and the Dictionary of Americanisms of Schele De Vere’s Manuscript Notes on Americanisms Atcheson L. Hench Atcheson L. Hench University of Virginia Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Publication of the American Dialect Society (1966) 46 (1): 20–23. https://doi.org/10.1215/-46-1-20 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site …
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