W. Cabell Greet
W. Cabell Greet | |
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Born | 28 January 1901 University of the South |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Barnard College |
Notable works | War Words: Recommended Pronunciations |
William Cabell Greet (28 January 1901, in El Paso, Texas – 19 December 1972, in Santa Barbara, California) was an American philologist and a professor of English.
He graduated as valedictorian
From 1931 to about 1942, Greet and George W. Hibbitt created and disseminated an audio archive of poetry readings by a number of famous American poets.[4]
The poets recorded as part of the series include:
Robert Tristram Coffin, Conrad Aiken, "AE" (George Russell), Carl Sandburg, and John Hall Wheelock.[4]
Greet was editor-in-chief of the journal American Speech from 1933 to 1952.[2]
For 30 years, he served as a speech consultant to newscasters and correspondents of the
He was the author of War Words: Recommended Pronunciations (published in 1943 for Columbia Broadcasting System by Columbia University Press); the book gave the pronunciations of thousands of foreign words, names, and battlefields in WW II. The book was enlarged to World Words: Recommended Pronunciations (1944)[2] and published in a 2nd edition in 1948.
Greet made recordings [5][6] demonstrating American vowels and diphthongs for language-teaching company Linguaphone (company).
He donated to Columbia University a collection of letters he received from famous American authors, including
Greet married Katherine E. Hyde on 11 September 1926 in Manhattan. Upon his death in 1971 he was survived by his widow and a daughter, Anne Greet Cushing, of Santa Barbara.[2] His widow Katherine was born on 20 June 1897 in Elmira, New York and died in February 1986 in Santa Barbara. In 1965 Anne H. Greet married John E. Cushing (1918–2001), a biology professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. In 1970 Anne Greet Cushing was appointed an associate professor of French and Italian at U.C. Santa Barbara.[7] She was a Guggenheim Fellow for the academic year 1972–1973.[8]
References
- ^ "Appendix VI: Memoranda of the Fifty-Second Commencement Exercises". Proceedings of the Board of Trustees of the University of the South. 15 (2): 2. August 1920 – via Internet Archive.
- ^ a b c d e f Hanley, Robert (21 December 1972). "W. Cabell Greet of Barnard, 71; Authority on U.S. Dialects Dies". New York Times.
- ^ a b "William Cabell Greet papers, 1901–1971". Columbia University Libraries, Archival Collections.
- ^ a b "The Speech Lab Recordings, edited by Chris Mustazza". PennSound (upenn.eud). (online audio)
- ^ Greet, W. Cabell. "American English Vowels and Diphthongs". Internet Archive. Archived from the original on 2022-10-22. Retrieved 2022-10-22.
- ^ Greet, W. Cabell. "American English Vowels in Groups". Internet Archive. Archived from the original on 2022-10-22. Retrieved 2022-10-22.
- ^ University of California (System) (1970). University Bulletin: A Weekly Bulletin for the Staff of the University of California. Office of Official Publications, University of California. p. 132.
- ^ "Anne Cushing Greet". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.