lectures) from the University of Rome (1995), a fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (2001–2002); a certificate and a prize for a meritorious paper at the International Phonetic Congress 1977, Miami Beach (Florida, 1977), The Katharine Briggs Folklore Award by the Folklore Society (1995), the Verbatim Dictionary Society of North America award for best project of the year (1996), MLA's annual prize for "a distinguished bibliography" (2010). Word Origins… was a selection of the Book of the Month Club and three other clubs. In 2014 Liberman was elected President of the English Spelling Society, and in 2015 Fellow of the Dictionary Society of North America. In 1997 a Festschrift was published under the title Germanic Studies in Honor of Anatoly Liberman, NOWELE 31–32. References External links Anatoly Liberman at the University of Minnesota The Oxford Etymologist – Professor Liberman's weekly column on word origins at the Oxford University Press blog. Анатолий Либерман — Журнальный зал :ru:Либерман, Анатолий Симонович#.D0.A1.D1.81.D1.8B.D0.BB.D0.BA.D0.B8 Anatoly Liberman lecture "Translating Poetry or Versifying with an Accent" Living people Writers from Saint Petersburg American male poets Jewish American writers English-language spelling reform advocates Germanic studies scholars Soviet emigrants to the United States American people of Russian descent Linguists from the United States Linguists from Russia Etymologists 1937 births University of Minnesota faculty 21st-century American Jews Herzen University alumni