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Urdang, Laurence was born on March 21, 1927 in New York City. Son of Harry Rudman and Annabel (Schafran) University.
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Urdang, Laurence was born on March 21, 1927 in New York City. Son of Harry Rudman and Annabel (Schafran) University.
Bachelor of Science, Columbia University, 1954; postgraduate, Columbia University, 1954-1958.
He was also the founding editor of Verbatim, a quarterly newsletter on language. He then entered the Naval Reserve at the end of World War 2. Educated at Columbia University (where he restricted himself to Russian, German, Latin, Greek, Sanskrit and Polish), Urdang was a linguistics lecturer at New York University from 1956 to 1961.
Although he never wrote the dissertation that would have completed his graduate degree, the Random House Dictionary filled the void amply: "He always said he considered the Random House dictionary his dissertation," said Nicole Urdang.
Urdang made his debut in the publishing industry as an associate editor in the dictionary department at Funk & Wagnalls and developed a vast vocabulary. Not averse to making fun of his profession, he wrote in the introduction to Misunderstood, Misused, & Mispronounced Words:
This is not a succedaneum for satisfying the nympholepsy of nullifidians.
Rather it is hoped that the haecceity of this enchiridion of arcane and recondite sesquipedalian items will appeal to the oniomania of an eximious Gemeinschaft whose legerity and sophrosyne, whose Sprachgefühl and orexis will find more than fugacious fulfillment among its felicific pages. He died on August 21, 2008, of congestive heart failure in Branford, Connecticut.
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Quotations: "He always said he considered the Random House dictionary his dissertation,".
Served with United States Naval Reserve, 1944-1945. Fellow Dictionary Society North America (honorary), Society Indexers (honorary), Euralex (honorary). Member Linguistic Society of America (honorary), Society Nautical Research, National Maritime Museum (board director), New Brunswick White Library., Mystic Museum, American Name Society, American Dialect Society.
Married Irena B. Ehrlich vel Sluszny, May 23, 1952 (divorced). Children: Nicole Severyn, Alexandra Stefanie.