Word: bergen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...away from Boss John V. Kenny, this election are trying to take the whole county. The conflict and confusion may rob Meyner of many of the votes he needs to roll up in Hudson in order to overcome a Forbes edge in such heavily Republican counties as Essex and Bergen...
...Scholar Bergen Evans believes firmly in a relative grammar. "No one can say how a word ought to be used." he insists. "The best anyone can do is say how it is being used...
...Dictionary of Contemporary American Usage (Random House; $3.95). Evans, 52, a professor of English at Northwestern University, wrote the book with his like-minded sister, Cornelia Evans, 56, a writing consultant to the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Their book has the same zestful flair that turned Bergen Evans into a national TV personality as the earnest, rapid-talking moderator of CBS's The Last Word (TIME...
Talking Through His Hat. Ohio-born Cornelia and Bergen Evans first developed an ear for the nuances of the English language in 1908, when their family moved to Sheffield, England and took a house near the Yorkshire moors. There they picked up a broad North Country dialect that stirred loud hoots of delight among their friends when they returned to Ohio in 1915. Recalls Cornelia: "We really spoke three languages: Middlewestern American, Yorkshire and the King's English...
...Evanses took seven years to write their dictionary, studied word by word such classics as H. W. Fowler's A Dictionary of Modern English Usage and A Dictionary of American English, edited by Sir William Craigie (see MILESTONES) and James Hulbert. In all, Bergen piled up 108 looseleaf notebooks in his children's playroom. As the project grew, he began to have nightmares about a fire destroying his files. "If the house caught fire while I was out," he chuckles, "my wife was instructed to forget the kids and start throwing the books out the window." Despite...