hans kurath

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born Dec. 13, 1891, Villach, Austria died Jan. 2, 1992, Ann Arbor, Mich., U.S. Austrian-born U.S. linguist. He immigrated to the U.S. in 1907. He is best known as the chief editor of the Linguistic Atlas of New England, 3 vol. (1939-43), the first linguistic atlas of a region of the U.S. His other works include A Word Geography of the Eastern United States (1949) and The Pronunciation of English in the Atlantic States (1961). Kurath was later editor in chief (1946-62) of the Middle English Dictionary
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