Organization American Dialect Society

Rowfant Club

United States Army

World Publishing Company

Jewish Community Center, Cleveland

Cleveland Chamber Music Society

American Civil Liberties Union, Cleveland

Ohio Humanities Council

Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists Association

American Name Society

National Council Teachers of English

Dictionary Society North America

Funk & Wagnalls

McGraw-Hill Book Company

American Folklore Society

American Anthropological Association

Society for Ethnomusicology

Canadian Folklore Society

The Atlantic Monthly

North American Review

Fireside Poets

European Association for Lexicography

Dictionary Society of North America

Oxford University Press

Columbia University

Linguistic Atlas of America

MacMurray College (Professor of English)

Providence College

Linguistic Society of America

New England Child Language Association