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Orin Hargraves

{{short description|American lexicographer and writer (born 1953)}}

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Orin Hargraves (born 1953) is an American lexicographer and writer. His language reference works include Mighty Fine Words and Smashing Expressions: Making Sense of Transatlantic English (Oxford University Press, 2002), Slang Rules!: A Practical Guide for English Learners (Merriam-Webster, 2008), and (with Willard Espy) Words to Rhyme With: A Rhyming Dictionary (2nd edition; Facts on File, 2006). In addition he has contributed definitions and other material to dictionaries and other language reference works issued by Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Longman, Macmillan, HarperCollins, Chambers Harrap, Langenscheidt, Berlitz, Scholastic Corporation, and Merriam-Webster, among others.

Biography

Orin Knight Hargraves was born on September 14, 1953, in Denver, Colorado. He spent most of his childhood in Creede, Colorado, and graduated with honors from the University of Chicago in 1977, concentrating in philosophy, language and literature. He served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Morocco where he taught English in a government lycée. Later he worked in the publishing software industry in Chicago and London. He began his career in lexicography in 1991 in London. He joined the Dictionary Society of North America in 1993 and was elected its vice president/president elect in 2009. He lives in Niwot, Colorado.

Bibliography

=As author or editor=

  • {{cite book |title=It's Been Said Before |year=2015 |isbn= |url= |publisher=|last=Hargraves |first=Orin |author-mask=2}}{{cite news|title=Meet lexicographer Orin Hargraves, the cliché killer|url=https://www.cpr.org/show-segment/meet-lexicographer-orin-hargraves-the-cliche-killer/|work = CPR News|author= Warner, Ryan|date = 3 April 2015|access-date = 2 November 2024}}
  • {{cite book |title=Slang Rules!: A Practical Guide for English Learners |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-87779-682-4 |url=https://archive.org/details/slangrulespracti0000harg |publisher=Merriam-Webster |location=Springfield, MA |last=Hargraves |first=Orin |author-mask=2}}
  • {{cite book |title=The Big Book of Spelling Tests |last=Hargraves |first=Orin |author-mask=2 |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-57912-696-4 |publisher=Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers |location=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/bigbookofspellin0000harg}}
  • —— (2006–2008) Spell It! study guide for the Scripps National Spelling Bee
  • {{cite book |title=Words to Rhyme With: A Rhyming Dictionary |last2=Hargraves |first2=Orin |author2-mask=2 |author-first=Willard |author-last=Espy |year=2006 |publisher=Facts On File |isbn=978-0-8160-6304-8 |url=https://archive.org/details/wordstorhymewith0003espy}}
  • {{cite book |title=New Words |editor-first=Orin |editor-last=Hargraves |editor-mask=2 |year=2004 |location=Oxford |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-517282-9 |url=https://archive.org/details/newwords0000unse}}
  • {{cite journal |volume=20 |issue=4 |doi=10.1017/S0266078404004092 |last=Hargraves |first=Orin |author-mask=2 |title=Cucurbits |journal=English Today |date=October 2004 |pages=50–54}}
  • {{cite journal |last=Hargraves |first=Orin |author-mask=2 |title=Long Distance Lexicography: a View from the Field |journal=Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America |pages=137–147 |volume=25 |year=2004 |doi=10.1353/dic.2004.0000|s2cid=145399102 }}
  • {{cite journal |last=Hargraves |first=Orin |author-mask=2 |title=Who Owns English? |journal=The Vocabula Review |date=June 2003 |url=https://www.orinhargraves.com/who-owns-english |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101109110954/http://www.orinhargraves.com/who-owns-english |archive-date=2010-11-09}}
  • {{cite book |last=Hargraves |first=Orin |author-mask=2 |title=Mighty Fine Words and Smashing Expressions: Making Sense of Transatlantic English |year=2002 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-515704-8 |url=https://archive.org/details/mightyfinewordss00harg}}

=As contributor=

  • {{cite book |title=Scholastic Children's Dictionary |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-545-21858-0 |publisher=Scholastic |location=New York |url=https://archive.org/details/scholasticchildr00schorich}}
  • {{cite book |title=Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary |year=2009 |isbn=978-0-521-87143-3 |url=https://archive.org/details/cambridgeacademi00camb |publisher=Cambridge University Press}}
  • {{cite book |title=Merriam-Webster's Advanced Learner's English Dictionary |year=2008 |publisher=Merriam-Webster |isbn=978-0-87779-551-3 |url=https://archive.org/details/merriamwebstersa0000unse}}
  • {{cite book |title=Cambridge Dictionary of American English |year=2008 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-69198-7 |url=https://archive.org/details/cambridgediction0000unse_m9i4}}
  • {{cite book |title=Concise Oxford English Dictionary |year=2008 |isbn=978-0-19-954841-5 |url=https://archive.org/details/conciseoxfordeng00cath |last1=Soanes |first1=Catherine |last2=Stevenson |first2=Angus |publisher=Oxford University Press }}
  • {{cite book |title=CollinsCobuild Advanced Dictionary of American English |year=2007 |publisher=Thomson Learng |isbn=978-1-4240-0363-1 |url=https://archive.org/details/collinscobuilddi0000coll}}
  • {{cite book |title=Heinle Picture Dictionary for Children (British English) |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-4240-0849-0 |last1=O'Sullivan |first1=Jill Korey |publisher=Thomson Heinle }}
  • {{cite book |title=The Language Report 5: English on the move, 2003–2007 |year=200 |isbn=0-19-923388-8 |last1=Dent |first1=Susie |publisher=Oxford University Press }}
  • {{cite book |title=The 5-Minute Linguist: Bite Sized Essays on Language and Languages |year=2006 |isbn=978-1-84553-199-7 |last1=Rickerson |first1=E. M. |last2=Hilton |first2=Barry |publisher=Equinox Pub. }}
  • {{cite book |title=Berlitz English Pronunciation Program CD |year=2005 |isbn=981-246-709-2}}
  • {{cite book |title=Harrap's Spanish and English Dictionary |year=2005 |isbn=0-07-144072-0}}
  • {{cite book |title=Oxford Dictionary of English |year=2005 |isbn=0-19-861057-2}}
  • {{cite book |title=Collins-Cobuild English Usage |year=2004 |isbn=0-00-716346-0}}
  • {{cite book |title=Microsoft Encarta Thesaurus |year=2004 |isbn=0-312-98363-8 |author1=Microsoft |last2=Jellis |first2=Susan |publisher=Macmillan }}
  • {{cite book |title=New Oxford American Dictionary |year=2004 |isbn=0-19-517077-6 |last1=McKean |first1=Erin |publisher=Oxford University Press, USA }}
  • {{cite book |title=Cambridge Dictionary of American Idioms |year=2003 |isbn=0-521-53271-X}}
  • {{cite book |title=Langenscheidt's Großwörterbuch Muret-Sanders Deutsch-Englisch |year=2003 |isbn=3-468-02126-7 |lang=de, en}}
  • {{cite book |title=Macmillan English Dictionary for Advanced Learners |year=2002 |isbn=0-333-96670-8 |author= |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan UK }}
  • {{cite book |title=Oxford Essential Dictionary of the US Military |year=2001 |publisher=Berkley Books |isbn=0-425-18069-7}}
  • {{cite book |title=Merriam-Webster Collegiate Encyclopedia |year=2000 |publisher=Merriam-Webster |isbn=0-87779-017-5}}
  • {{cite book |title=Encarta World English Dictionary |year=1999 |isbn=0-312-22222-X |last1=Soukhanov |first1=Anne H. |publisher=St. Martin's Press }}
  • {{cite book |title=Longman Interactive American Dictionary CD-ROM |year=1997 |publisher=Longman |isbn=0-582-24795-0}}
  • {{cite book |title=Longman Dictionary of English Language and Culture |year=1992 |isbn=0-582-23720-3 |last1=Summers |first1=Della |publisher=Longman }}

=Other writing=

  • {{cite book |title=Culture Shock! London: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-7614-2500-7 |last=Hargraves |first=Orin |author-mask=2|publisher=Marshall Cavendish Editions |location=Tarrytown, NY}}
  • {{cite book |last=Hargraves |first=Orin |author-mask=2 |title=Culture Shock! Morocco: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-7614-2502-1 |publisher=Marshall Cavendish Editions |location=Tarrytown, NY}}
  • {{cite book |last=Hargraves |first=Orin |author-mask=2 |title=Culture Shock!: Chicago at Your Door |year=2007 |isbn=978-0-7614-5400-7 |publisher=Marshall Cavendish Editions |location=Tarrytown, NY}}

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