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Joshua Whatmough

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 April 2026

Eric Hamp
Eric Hamp*
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University of Chicago
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Joshua Whatmough, who died on 25 April 1964, was born in Rochdale, Lancashire, on 30 June 1897, the son of Walter and Elizabeth (née Hollows) Whatmough. In conversation, and occasionally in print, Whatmough used to refer to his childhood familiarity with the local speech of his home region, although, as many members of this Society will recall, his adult style of speech was a variety of educated British English moderately close to the norms of RP, yet always flavored with reminiscences of Lancashire phonetics.

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Obituaries
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Language , Volume 42 , Issue 3-Part1 , September 1966 , pp. 620 - 631
Copyright
Copyright © 1966 by Linguistic Society of America

References

1 I wish to thank Mrs. Jean Bassan most heartily for her highly skilled and painstaking help in verifying the accuracy of reference in the list of Whatmough's published works and in consulting past editions of reference works for the facts of his life.

It is with infinite sadness that I reflect that Bernard Bloch, who requested this obituary, is himself no longer here to receive it.

2 In 1920 there was, in addition, the Key to the exercises in Walters and Conway's Deigma.

3 ‘Not attempting, for example, to bring up-to-date mere bibliography—that fetish of the timid and incompetent compiler—but only matters of consequence’ (15).

4 ‘Unless otherwise specified the Grammar is my own work’ (11). ‘Areas which have been done by former students, whether in print or not, are (with some necessary changes) given here, with appropriate credit to their authors’ (19).