William Quinby De Funiak (November 16, 1901 – November 2, 1981) was an American writer and law academic who wrote what was probably the first systematic American-British, British-American dictionary: American-British, British-American Dictionary With Helpful Hints for Travelers.
He was born in Alabama and traveled abroad to lecture and study and visited Britain a good deal.
He noted the linguistic differences between American English and British English and decided to produce a detailed glossary to aid the "two peoples separated by a common language" (as George Bernard Shaw put it).
He died in Santa Cruz, California in 1981, at age 79.
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