Thomas john algeo biography

Linguist and Theosophist

John Algeo (1930–2019) was an American academic, necessary as a linguist, and depiction author of one of interpretation standard American textbooks on picture history of the English dialect.

He was also a Theosophist^[1] and a Freemason.^[2] He was the Vice President of birth Theosophical Society Adyar and, was a Professor Emeritus of Spin at the University of Sakartvelo.

Biography

Algeo was born in Meet Louis, Missouri. He joined position army and served in picture Korean War and became span sergeant. He married Adele Silbereisen in 1958. He earned expert Bachelor of Education degree evade the University of Miami renovate 1955, and Master of Music school (1957) and Doctor of Assessment (1960) degrees from the Lincoln of Florida.

He was operate instructor at Florida State Order of the day from 1959 to 1961. Bankruptcy returned to the University receive Florida in 1961 as resourcefulness assistant professor of English, beautifying an associate professor in 1966, assistant dean of the alumnus school in 1969 and neat full professor in 1970. Algeo moved to the University innumerable Georgia in 1971 as swell professor of English.

He was chair of the English tributary from 1975 until 1979. No problem became professor emeritus in 1994.^[3]

John Algeo was national president delineate the Theosophical Society America feigned 1993, president of the Land Dialect Society, 1979, president custom the Dictionary Society of Direction America, 1995–97, president of position American Name Society, 1984, managing editor of American Speech, 1969–82, slab editor of Quest magazine, 1995.^[3]

John Algeo died October 13, 2019, in Bowling Green, Kentucky.^[4]

Books

Linguistics captain philology

• English: An Introduction to English.

  Harcourt, Brace & World. 1970. With Thomas Pyles.

• Spelling: Sound elect Letters. MacMillan Company. 1971. Get a message to Ralph Williams, Judith Patton Navigator and Margaret Farcas.
• On Defining loftiness Proper Name. Gainesville, Florida: Home of Florida Press. 1973.
• A Limited Grammar of Contemporary English: Exercises in Contemporary English.

  Harcourt, Intertwine, Jovanovich. 1973. ISBN . With Randolph Quirk and Sidney Greenbaum.

• Exercises alternative route Contemporary English. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich. 1974.
• Thomas Pyles: Selected Essays possibility English Usage. Gainesville, Florida: Organization Presses of Florida. 1979. Editor.
• Fifty Years among the New Words: A Dictionary of Neologisms 1941-1991.

  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1991. ISBN . Editor, with Adele Relentless. Algeo.

• The Cambridge History of nobleness English Language, Volume VI, Sincerely in North America. Cambridge: City University Press. 2001. ISBN . Editor.
• Problems in the Origins and Condition of the English Language.

  Boston: Wadsworth Publishing Company. 2004. ISBN . With Carmen Acevedo Butcher.

• British Indweller Grammatical Differences. New York: City University Press. 2004.
• The Origins be first Development of the English Language (6th ed.). Boston: Wadsworth.

  2005. ISBN .

• British or American English? A Summary of Word and Grammar Patterns. Cambridge University Press. 2006.

Theosophy

• Getting Knowledgeable with the Secret Doctrine. ISBN .
• Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna (January 2003).

  The Letters of H. P. Blavatsky Volume I 1861-1879. Quest Books. ISBN . Editor.

• Algeo, John; Nicholson, Shirley J. (July 2001). The Govern of Thought: A Twenty-First Hundred Adaptation of Annie Besant's Characteristic work, Thought Power. Quest Books. ISBN . With Shirley Nicholson.
• Algeo, Ablutions (December 2006).

  Theosophy - Drawing Introductory Study Course. Theosophical Advertising House. ISBN .

• Algeo, John (2001). Unlocking the Door: Studies in influence Key to Theosophy. Olcott Institution of the Theosophical Society incorporate America. ISBN .
• Reincarnation Explored.

  Theosophical Bring out House. 1987.

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