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Laurence Urdang
Laurence Urdang (March 21, 1927 – August 21, 2008) was a lexicographer, editor and author noted for first computerising the unabridged ''Random House Dictionary of the English Language'', published in 1966. He was also the founding editor of ''Verbatim'', a quarterly newsletter on language.Urdang was born in Manhattan and graduated from the Fieldston School in The Bronx. He then entered the Naval Reserve at the end of World War II.
Educated at Columbia University (where he restricted himself to Russian, German, Latin, Greek, Sanskrit and Polish), Urdang was a linguistics lecturer at New York University from 1956 to 1961. Although he never wrote the dissertation that would have completed his graduate degree, the ''Random House Dictionary'' filled the void amply: "He always said he considered the Random House dictionary his dissertation," said Nicole Urdang.
Urdang made his debut in the publishing industry as an associate editor in the dictionary department at Funk & Wagnalls and developed a vast vocabulary. Not averse to making fun of his profession, he wrote in the introduction to ''Misunderstood, Misused, & Mispronounced Words'':
This is not a succedaneum for satisfying the nympholepsy of nullifidians. Rather it is hoped that the haecceity of this enchiridion of arcane and recondite sesquipedalian items will appeal to the oniomania of an eximious Gemeinschaft whose legerity and sophrosyne, whose Sprachgefühl and orexis will find more than fugacious fulfillment among its felicific pages.
He died on August 21, 2008, of congestive heart failure in Branford, Connecticut. Provided by Wikipedia
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The Dictionary of Confusable Words by Urdang, Laurence
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The Oxford thesaurus by Urdang, Laurence
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Dictionary of differences by Urdang, Laurence
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Dictionary of differences by Urdang, Laurence
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A Dictionary of names and nicknames by Urdang, Laurence
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The New York times everyday reader's dictionary of misunderstood, misused, mispronounced words. by Urdang, Laurence
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Holidays and anniversaries of the world
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The dictionary of advertising
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Dictionary of advertising terms
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Dictionary of advertising terms
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Ologies and isms
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Dictionary of advertising terms
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Dictionary of advertising terms
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The synonym finder by Rodale, J. I. (Jerome Irving), 1898-1971
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The synonym finder by Rodale, J. I. (Jerome Irvingd1898-1971
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Picturesque expressions a thematic dictionary
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