David Shulman
American cryptographer and lexicographer
About David Shulman
Lived 1912 – 2004 (aged 91). David Shulman was an American lexicographer, cryptographer and scrabble player.
David Shulman (November 12, 1912 – October 30, 2004) was an American lexicographer and cryptographer.
Shulman contributed many early usages to the Oxford English Dictionary and is listed among "Readers and contributors from collections" for the 1989 second edition of the OED. He said that he felt most at home in the New York Public Library, undertaking his lexicographic research there and donating many valuable items to it. Shulman described himself as "the Sherlock Holmes of Americanisms". "Scientists Baffled: George Washington Spotted on Venus!!!" in Chapter 14: "On the Untranslatable" in Le Ton beau de Marot: In Praise of the Music of Language, by Douglas R. Hofstadter. pp. 438–439
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Who was David Shulman?
American cryptographer and lexicographer
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David Shulman was born on 12 November 1912.
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David Shulman died on 30 October 2004.
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David Shulman was a lexicographer, cryptographer and scrabble player.
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David Shulman was American.
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