Allen Walker Read (June 2, 1906 – October 16, 2002) was an American etymologist and lexicographer. Born in Minnesota, he spent much of his career as a...

misspelling of "all correct". This origin was first described by linguist Allen Walker Read in the 1960s. As an adjective, OK principally means "adequate" or...

his name to Heywood Allen and later began to call himself Woody. According to Allen, his first published joke read: "Woody Allen says he ate at a restaurant...

while 344 of Roosevelt's delegates abstained from the vote. Henry Justin Allen read a speech from Roosevelt in which he criticized the process and stated...

Vermont becoming a separate British province. Allen wrote accounts of his exploits in the war that were widely read in the 19th century, as well as philosophical...

about an amendment that prohibited discrimination against LGBT workers, Allen read a Bible verse that says of homosexuals, "they which commit such things...

Microsoft BASIC product range. Bill Gates recalls that, when he and Paul Allen read about the Altair in the January 1975 issue of Popular Electronics, they...

name Nipper Read: The Man Who Nicked the Krays. Read married Marion Millar in 1951; the couple divorced in 1979. In 1980, he married Pat Allen who had worked...

Paul Gardner Allen (January 21, 1953 – October 15, 2018) was an American businessman, computer programmer, researcher, film producer, explorer, sports...

briefly as "Miss Zelda" in the 1946 film Gay Blades. Allen became a writer by default, having always read constantly. Being able to write pretty well, she...